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Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Jazz
Uplifted
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You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
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I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Artist
Easier
Play
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If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Europe
Looks
Teenager
Hardly
Teenagers
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I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.
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Judging
Not Judging
Talking
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My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Juice
Needed
Records
Restoring
Sabbatical
Juices
Record Business
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For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Albums
Jazz
Years
Philharmonic
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Hearing
Jazz
Knowing
Pop Music
Soaking
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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Artist
Function
Genuine
Producer
Repertoire
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If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Looks
Walks
Want
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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
America
Concerts
Jazz
Names
Use
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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Fans
Jazz
Today
Years
Hence
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I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Concerned
Fans
Jazz
Trends
Years
Trend
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I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Fans
Jazz
Sound
Special
Tremendously
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The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Groups
Record Companies
Records
Rocks
Sales
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I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Artist
Long
Play
Allowed
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I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Cases
Four
Six
Years
Tours
Concert
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Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Evaluate
People
Sponsors
Talent
Basis
Talent People Will
Networks
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You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Done
People
Way
People Always Way
Few People
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As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Long
Majority
People
Thinking
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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Leadership
Musician
Track
Arranger
Tracks
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If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Combination
Dukes
Might
Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Duke
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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 / Music Producer
States
Thinking
United States
Tours
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The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Jazz
Reason
Segregation
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In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Europe
Moved
Switzerland
Permanently
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The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Dancing
Jazz
Sight
Singing
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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 / Music Producer
Art
Jazz
Permanence
Thinking
Apart
Art Form
Attached
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There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Groups
Leader
Maximum
Together
Years
Work Money Enough
Afford
Work Money Together
Enough Money
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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.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Standards
Admit
Presented
Warrant
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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 / Music Producer
Nightclubs
Big Band
Talents
Duke
Ella
Strictly
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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 / Music Producer
Cases
Civil Rights
Development
Facade
Myth
Reality
Rights
Civil
Dealing
Peripheral
Purely
Supposed
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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 / Music Producer
Country
Europe
Germany
People
Western
Western Europe
Duke
Ella
Reaction
Richest
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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.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Concerts
Fashion
Jazz
Names
People
Allow
Festival
Price
Tour
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Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
America
Democracy
Differences
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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.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
London
Madrid
Newark
Next Week
Philadelphia
Play
Warsaw
Years
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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 / Music Producer
Amsterdam
Exposed
Japan
Jazz
People
Profitable
Successful
Million People
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At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
Important
Should
Want
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