Top 33 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

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

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.

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.

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

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.