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He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.
— Oscar Peterson
I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
— Norman Granz
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
— Norman Granz
It's a nice day for a white wedding.
— Billy Idol
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
— Norman Granz
I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
— Norman Granz
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
— Norman Granz
As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
— Norman Granz
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
— Norman Granz
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
— Norman Granz
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
— Norman Granz
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
— Norman Granz
But I was thinking of a wayTo feed oneself on batter,
And so go on from day to day
Getting a little fatter. — Lewis Carroll
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
— Norman Granz
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
— Norman Granz
You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
— Norman Granz
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is the ultimate negative.
— Tom Stoppard
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
— Norman Granz
Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.
— Norman Granz
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
— Aristotle.
I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.
— Norman Granz
Portray your product as average and that's all that it will ever be.
— Jeremy Gutsche
I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.
— Norman Granz
Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
— Norman Granz
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
— Norman Granz
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.
— Norman Granz
You're probably smarter than you present yourself.
— Norman Granz
