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

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• 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 think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over

• Norman Granz:

  I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from

• 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 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.