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

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

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

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

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

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