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

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

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

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

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
Norman Granz

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

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

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

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


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

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
Norman Granz

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

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
Norman Granz

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
Norman Granz

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
Norman Granz

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

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
Norman Granz

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

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