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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."
"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."
"For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song."
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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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