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

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.

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.

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

May find hope you every hardship.

we raise them for us

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

People who tell you exactly what they think of you aren't necessarily enemies.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

When will all the rhetorical questions end?

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

It's not that serious I never put that much thought into us It wasn't that I loved you I was curious

Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

I'm a size 10. I could be a size 8 if i wanted to, but i'm effin hungry