Norman Granz Quotes

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

  Norman Granz

• 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

• 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 don’t think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that’s over with.

  Norman Granz

• 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

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

  Norman Granz

• I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

  Norman Granz

• For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

  Norman Granz

• Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

  Norman Granz

• 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

• As long as we’re in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

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

  Norman Granz

Norman Granz (33)

Birth:	6th August, 1918
Death:	22nd November, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Impresario, Record Producer

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