I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

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.

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

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.

Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep.

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.