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

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.

Determine soul is unshakable.

He does kiss like a pirate though, I was able to re-affirm that.

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

The problem with human beings is that they can't sit alone in a room for more than an hour.

Sometimes it's important just to allow myself to feel whatever it is I am feeling and to be okay with it.