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.

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• 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.

• Norman Granz:

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

• Norman Granz:

  Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

• Norman Granz:

  My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.