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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."
"In general, I don't feel artists should need producers."
"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."
"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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