Norman Granz Quotes

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

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• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• 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.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• The world wants to like America.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • America
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Old
  • Jazz

• I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Believe
  • Things
  • Use

• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • America
  • Growth
  • Period

• In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • America
  • Movie
  • Way

• I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Use
  • Custom
  • Gibson

• John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • America
  • Hard Work

• 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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • America
  • Growth

• I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • America
  • Think
  • Eyes

• You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Up
  • War
  • America

• I believe the people of Arizona and the people of America are fed up with the federal government. The bottom line is, is that they need to secure our borders. And in regards to Senate Bill 1070, what a disappointment! It hasn't been divisive; it has united Arizona! It has united America!

  

  Jan Brewer
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I never planned to be a model at all. I moved to Paris to study art, and I was there working as an artist, taking classes, and I had a little sick dog that I was using up all of my money to try and heal. It was right at that point that this photographer, Errol Sawyer, saw me at the phoning office and convinced me to let him take my photo.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Up
  • Money
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Like
  • Anger

• Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

  

  Carol Bellamy
  • Work
  • Children
  • Help

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

  

  Norman Granz
  • America
  • Use
  • Names