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Norman Granz
American
Musician
About the author
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Public
#Jazz
#Music
#Hearing
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Being
#Present
#Artists
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,
American
Musician
#Work
#Leaders
#Money
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#First
#History
#Singing
#Dancing
#Jazz
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#America
#Jazz
#Names
Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Jazz
You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Years
#Play
#Today
#London
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,
American
Musician
#Now
#People
#Today
#Jazz
#states
#Fashion
#Names
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#People
#Will
#Talent
#Evaluate
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Artists
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Europe
If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Europe
#Audiences
#Teenagers
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Talking
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Business
I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Development
#Reality
#Myth
#Civil rights
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,
American
Musician
#Will
#states
#United
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,
American
Musician
#Art
#Jazz
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Want
#Jazz
#Sound
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Years
#Today
#Old
#Jazz
I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Play
#Artists
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,
American
Musician
#Now
#Work
#Names
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Now
#Fans
#Will
#Years
#Jazz
I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Peace
#Europe
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Play
#Artists
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,
American
Musician
#People
#Being
#Country
#Europe
#Television
#Germany
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Writer
#Sound
#Leader
As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#People
#Will
#Democracy
#Majority
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,
American
Musician
#People
#Successful
#Sense
#Jazz
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
Norman Granz,
American
Musician
#Years
#Jazz