I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

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.

Not every ROAD we come across in our daily life is one we have to take. Sometimes just standing still and being, can BE the best move we ever make.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in. It's important that people discuss things.

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.