I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

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.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

May you have warmth in your igloo oil in your lamp and peace in your heart.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.