Norman Granz Quotes

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Norman Granz

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• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Band
  • Always
  • Never

• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Singing
  • Plan
  • Profession

• For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Band
  • Like
  • Task

• I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Three
  • Dancing
  • Scottish

• There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • People
  • Black
  • Feeling

• Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• My music is jazz.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Music
  • Jazz

• Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.

  

  Candice Glover
  • American
  • Singing
  • Weird

• I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Singing
  • Weird
  • Karaoke

• 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar,The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star.He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Why
  • Song
  • Star

• (Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever his other qualities might be, Crocco most undoubtedly was a 'ruler of men'. His word in that band was law, and the punishment of disaffection was death.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Great
  • Band

• Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

  

  Jean Philippe Rameau
  • Singing

• When I was four, we moved to a farm outside Springfield, Missouri. We had a radio show from that farmhouse. My dad always wanted a farm. We used to go out and milk the cows every morning and then do a radio show with a remote control from our living room. We'd start by singing 'Keep On The Sunny Side.'

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Control
  • Dad
  • Morning

• I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing classical guitar recitals, and people said, 'You know, you can't really do both things.' My intuition told me they were wrong. Somehow, what was interesting about me was that I had those two things in my life.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Band
  • Cool
  • Rock

• Longer-term, I think the markets would rally under a [Donald] Trump plan and sell-off on a [Hillary] Clinton policy.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Trump
  • Policy
  • Plan

• Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Easy
  • Ego
  • Tough

• If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • People
  • Texas
  • Rep

• The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Band
  • Singing
  • Firsts