I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create..

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 that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it..

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind..

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas..

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland..

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups..

If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back..

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire..

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all..

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 case….

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 ….

At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't….

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 dem….

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz..

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business..

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks..

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers..

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

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent..

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now..