Top 33 Quotes by Norman Granz

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

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.

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.

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

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.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

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

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.