Norman Granz Quotes
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
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The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.
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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
