Norman Granz Quotes
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
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You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
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If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
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In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S.
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Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
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In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.
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Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
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I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
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You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.
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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.
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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
