Norman Granz Quotes

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• Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

  Norman Granz

  Differences, America, Democracy

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• The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

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  Jazz, Reason, Segregation

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• If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.

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  Looks, Want, Walks

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• You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.

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  Smarter

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• 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.

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  Art, Thinking, Jazz

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

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  Years, Albums, Jazz

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• At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further.

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  Important, Want, Should

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

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  Special, Sound, Fans

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• 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.

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  Next Week, Years, Play

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• 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.

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  Years, Leader, Together

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• I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

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  Europe

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

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  Years, Fans, Trends

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• Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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  Jazz

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• I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

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  Talking, Judging, Not Judging

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

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  Names, America, Use

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• My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

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  Artist, Genuine, Function

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• I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

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  Artist, Play, Long

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

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  Teenager, Europe, Looks

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

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  Thinking, Long, People

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

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  Sight, Dancing, Singing

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

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  Years, Fans, Today

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• I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.

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  Thinking, United States, States

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

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  Rocks, Groups, Records

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• 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.

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  Country, Europe, People

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Names, People

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