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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."

"When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with."

"Employment should not be your permanent assignment."
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"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."

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

"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 cases, it's just a facade."

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

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

"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."

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