The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.