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Norman Granz

"There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year."

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Donna Grant

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

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Donna Grant

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

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Donna Grant

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."

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Donna Grant

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

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Donna Grant

"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

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Donna Grant

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

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Donna Grant

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

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Donna Grant

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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Donna Grant

"All about the fucking money... money... money... thinking it's for the good for your generation... but so far it's neither and for that and neither and for that... It's mostly for the worst of your generation and other's generations."

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Norman Granz
"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."

Development

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Norman Granz
"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."

America

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Norman Granz
"Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it."

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Norman Granz
"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."

Talent

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Norman Granz
"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."

People

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Norman Granz
"The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price."

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Norman Granz
"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."

Europe

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Norman Granz
"Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough."

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Norman Granz
"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."

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Norman Granz
"The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing."

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