59 Quotes by Norman Granz
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If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
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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.
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As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
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For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
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I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
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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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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.
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