Norman Granz Quotes
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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I'm very thankful to all my fans for their constant love and support. I am what I am because of their unconditional love.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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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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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
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I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
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My music is jazz.
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I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.
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Some actors are like flowers basking in the sun - they love the attention, and the fans get what they want. With me it's different. I know the fans aren't getting what they want. And I'm certainly not getting what I want.
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I believe that the FBI clearly was concerned, wanted to monitor and disrupt Malcolm X wherever possible.
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When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
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Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.
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I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
