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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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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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 the all-American boy, the Eagle Scout. I remember I was at my girlfriend's apartment, and there were these strange publications like The Nation and The New Republic. I started looking at them and thought, 'Gee, this is weird; people saying things against America?' It was an awakening. On the East Coast, I'd never even heard of conscientious objectors.
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One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
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If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.
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I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
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But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.
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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
