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

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

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.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.

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