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Music Promoter Inspirational Quotes (32)

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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Norman Granz
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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
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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
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If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
Sol Hurok
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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Norman Granz
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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
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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
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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
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If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
Norman Granz
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For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
Norman Granz
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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
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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
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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
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I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.
Norman Granz
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If you love the things you do, you don’t age, you always remain young. Age is for the calendar.
Sol Hurok
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz
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Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
Norman Granz
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If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.
Norman Granz
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I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.
George Wein
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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
Norman Granz
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I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.
Howie Klein
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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
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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
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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
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