You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

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