"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."

Artist, Artists, Play

34

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."

Exlpore more Artist quotes

"Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together."

Glenn Frey, American Musician

Artist, Artists, Now

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Artist, Artists, Man

"I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!"

Colin Mochrie, Scottish Actor

Artist, Artists, Favorite

"But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected."

Talib Kweli, American Musician

Artist,

"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."

Greg Egan, Australian Scientist

Artist, Artists, Giants, Years

"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did."

Sebastian Bach, Canadian Musician

Artist, Being

"I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone."

Rene Auberjonois, American Actor

Artist, Sense

"My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends."

Amber Tamblyn, American Actress

Artist, Artists, Friends, Parents

"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."

Billy Joel, American Musician

Artist, Journey

"I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it."

Terri Clark, Canadian Musician

Artist, Joy, Want, Years

Explore more quotes by 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

"I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all."

Talking

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

State

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

Europe

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

People

"The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups."

Sales

"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."

Audience

"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."

Leader

"I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now."

Fans

"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."

Business