I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

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.

Think that today is the best day of your life and, with love and kindness, change yourself to begin the first day of the rest of your existing life.

Every prayer victory makes it easier to believe the next time.

Life can become difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

When in doubt, grab power.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!