You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

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.

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

I always made an awkward bow.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.