Norman Granz
Musician
1918-08-06
Quotes by Norman Granz
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
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Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
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In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
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I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
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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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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.
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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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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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