Norman Granz famous quotes

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.
-- Norman Granz

#Reality #Rights #Development

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.
-- Norman Granz

#Europe

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.
-- Norman Granz

#Play #Philadelphia #Years

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
-- Norman Granz

#People #Talent #Sponsors

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
-- Norman Granz

#Artist #Genuine #Function

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
-- Norman Granz

#Europe #Switzerland #Moved

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
-- Norman Granz

#Teenager #Europe #Looks

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
-- Norman Granz

#Records #Sabbatical #Juice

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
-- Norman Granz

#Dukes #Might #Combination

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

#Talking #Judging #Not Judging

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
-- Norman Granz

#Years #Six #Four

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
-- Norman Granz

#Artist #Play #Made

You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.
-- Norman Granz

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.
-- Norman Granz

#Fashion #Names #Giving

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.
-- Norman Granz

#Country #Europe #People

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

#Names #America #Use

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
-- Norman Granz

#People #Way #Done

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
-- Norman Granz

#Dancing #Singing #Firsts

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.
-- Norman Granz

#Years #Leader #Together

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

#Years #Trends #Fans

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
-- Norman Granz

#Jazz

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

#Thinking #Long #People

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.
-- Norman Granz

#Successful #Japan #People

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

#Years #Albums #Jazz

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
-- Norman Granz

#Track #Leader #Doe

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
-- Norman Granz

#Artist #Play #Long

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

#Years #Today #Fans

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

#Thinking #United States #States

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

#Art #Thinking #Jazz

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

#Special #Fans #Want

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

#Knowing #Hearing #Jazz

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
-- Norman Granz

#Rocks #Records #Groups