Top 33 Quotes by Norman Granz

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

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.

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.

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

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

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

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.

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.

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

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.