Whenever I call a company and get put on hold, I never really feel like I'm being held.
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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.
Life's too short so we should enjoy it without forget our limits.
Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.
I keep my enemies close I give 'em enough rope They put themselves in the air I just kick away the chair.
Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.