I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

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.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

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.

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