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

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

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

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

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.

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.