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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
Jazz,
"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
Jazz,
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"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
"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."
"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."
"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."
"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."
"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."
"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."
"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."
"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."
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