Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

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

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.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.

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.