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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

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

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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 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 want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

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.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.