Quotes from Norman Granz

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

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

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

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

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.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

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

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

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