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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

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 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.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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