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"But you can't really know your audiences so well."

"For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds."
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"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."

"Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents."

"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."

"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."

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

"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."

"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."

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