Norman Granz Quotes
To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue to keep growing, and make everything consistent, I'm going to get better and better each year.
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I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
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When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
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I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.
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Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.
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But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
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Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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I wanna go play my music in a club.
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Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort.
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Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
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To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.
