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"I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing."

"You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public."
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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."

"The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing."
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