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 want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

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

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

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

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

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.