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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.
Norman Granz
If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
Norman Granz
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
Norman Granz
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
Norman Granz
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
Norman Granz
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
Norman Granz
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Norman Granz
I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
Norman Granz
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
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Norman Granz
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
Norman Granz
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
Norman Granz
I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.
Norman Granz
I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
Norman Granz
Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
Norman Granz
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
Norman Granz
You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
Norman Granz
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
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
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
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