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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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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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'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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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 need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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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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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say something, they would have a demo reel, and I would try to tell them the truth. I don't go up and say something unless I really feel it.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.
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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.
