Norman Granz Quotes

"The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Sales)

"There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Artists, Being, Present)

"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
(Related: Money, Work, Leaders)

"The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing."
- Norman Granz
(Related: History, Dancing, First, Jazz, Singing)

"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."
- Norman Granz
(Related: America, Jazz, Names)

"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Jazz)

"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
- Norman Granz
(Related: People, Will)

"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
(Related: London, Play, Today, Years)

"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
(Related: People, Fashion, Jazz, Names, Now, states, Today)

"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Talent, People, Evaluate, Will)

"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Artists)

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

"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Audiences, Europe, Teenagers)

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

"I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Talking)

"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Business)

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

"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
(Related: Development, Civil rights, Myth, Reality)

"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
(Related: states, United, Will)

"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
(Related: Art, Jazz)

"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Jazz, Sound, Want)

"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Jazz, Old, Today, Years)

"I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Artists, Play)

"Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Work, Names, Now)

"I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Fans, Jazz, Now, Will, Years)

"I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Peace, Europe)

"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Artists, Play)

"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
(Related: People, Being, Country, Europe, Germany, Television)

"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Leader, Sound, Writer)

"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."
- Norman Granz
(Related: People, Democracy, Majority, Will)

"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
(Related: People, Successful, Jazz, Sense)

"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Jazz, Years)