Norman Granz Quotes

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

Norman Granz

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• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Just

• If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Fight
  • Look
  • White

• Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Magic
  • Blood
  • Democratic

• I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • Different
  • Family
  • Business

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Only
  • Truly
  • Spontaneity

• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Good
  • Power
  • Culture

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Life
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • God
  • Day
  • Politics

• I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Player

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Looks
  • Dreams
  • Inside

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Want
  • You
  • Debt

• Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Tool

• Charity creates a multitude of sins.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Charity
  • Sins
  • Multitude

• In those one-off games, everyone can do those, but you put together a six, seven-game tournament, the strong survive. For me to still feel good from beginning to end, that's a testament to how I train and what I do.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Good
  • Together
  • Game

• The hi-tech industry is not a monolithic thing. If you look on a timeline of a company, you see that in the beginning, you have to come up with an idea and to be willing to take risk. You have to grow fast, you have to think fast, and you have to do this usually in small teams.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Up
  • Small
  • Beginning

• I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Novel

• Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Country
  • May

• There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Pain
  • Tales
  • Moods

• Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is.

  

  Charlotte Green
  • Women
  • Relationship
  • Sadness

• My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Artist
  • Function
  • Producers