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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
And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.
— Angela Carter
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
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
— Norman Granz
Unfortunately, we spend more time teaching our daughters how to avoid becoming rape victims than teaching our sons not to become rapists.
— Amir Clayton Powell
I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.
— Nicky Oppenheimer
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
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
— Norman Granz
Time will always smile at you, even when it's ripping you of the days and nights of your life.
— Cameron Jace
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
— Norman Granz
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
— Norman Granz
You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
— Norman Granz
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
— Francois Rabelais
A crash. Books fall to the speckled linoleum floor. They
— Colleen Hoover
Needs can never be replaced; wants get replaced.
— Umair Naeem
You're probably smarter than you present yourself.
— 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
Readers are Leader
— Cornelius David
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
— Norman Granz
Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
— Norman Granz
Words, Isobel, have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being. Remember that.
— Kelly Creagh
The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.
— Norman Granz
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
I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.
— Norman Granz
The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.
— Michael D. Higgins
