In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.

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

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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