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"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."
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"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."
Artist
"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."
State
"I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all."
Talking
"I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now."
Fans
"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
Artist
"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."
Artist
"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."
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"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."
Europe
"I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe."
Peace
"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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