Norman Granz Quotes
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
Karl Malone
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
Larry Dixon
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
Parker Posey
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
Ted Danson
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Barbra Streisand
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
Barry Jenkins
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
Malcolm Mclaren
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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
Vicente Fox
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When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.
Dan Hill
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All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.
Steve Winwood
Blind Faith
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The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'
Jeff Daniels
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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
Henrik Ibsen
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz
