I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

We must believe there are places where tranquility still exists and nature is given back her power to speak

Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave

Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

I love the cancer spoon!

The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.