Norman Granz Quotes
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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We always dreamed the same dreams, which was like living twice.
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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I recorded songs with a great deal of meaning, songs of lasting material. That's the legacy I want to leave behind - a legacy of love.
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For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
