59 Quotes by Norman Granz

I don’t know who’s 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

If you don’t get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don’t look back.

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.

I don’t want to sound as if I’m doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

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

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.

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.

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