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.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

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

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.

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