You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work.

I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.

It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.