Norman Granz Quotes
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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The world wants to like America.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
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John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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I think we're glazing eyes all across America.
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I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
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Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
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The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.
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I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.
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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
