 Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent. |
| 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. |
| The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing. |
| 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 economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price. |
| If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good. |
| My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire. |
| There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards. |
| I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan. |
| I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six. |
| I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan. |
| I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with. |
| For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind. |
