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

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

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 don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.