I never went for the talkers.
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
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.
The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system of government. In other words, it's the Constitution's fault. Something truly catastrophic was bound to happen sooner or later.
We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.