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

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

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

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.

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

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 made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.