Norman Granz Quotations

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.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

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

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

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

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.

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

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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.

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