Norman Granz Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

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

  Norman Granz

  Might, Dukes, Combination

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

  Norman Granz

  Sabbatical, Juice, Records

  66 Copy quote

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

  Norman Granz

  People, Talent, Sponsors

  16 Copy quote

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

  Norman Granz

  Years, Fans, Today

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Norman Granz

  People, Done, Way

  4 Copy quote

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

  Norman Granz

  Rocks, Groups, Records

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  45 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

Page 2 of 2

First

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin