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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• 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
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  • 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

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

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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• 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

• 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

• (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

• 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

• I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Great
  • Band
  • Rock

• When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Feeling
  • Perfect
  • Singing

• I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Music
  • Parents

• Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.

  

  George A. Romero

• I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

  

  Andy Van Slyke
  • Professional

• A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Book
  • Again
  • Classic

• If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• 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