59 Quotes by Norman Granz

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

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

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.

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.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

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

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

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.

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