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Norman Granz Quotes

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 6, 1918 - November 22, 2001

Topics

Art Think Kind Jazz Attached Apart

People inspire me. Every day, I meet amazing individuals in the field. When I see a mother who has walked for three weeks to come to a MSF clinic, with two kids on her back and her belongings on her head, facing intimidation and physical abuse on her way, I am inspired by her resilience - her desire for life.

Life Mother Day I Am People Amazing

I signed with Big Yellow Dog and have been with them for years. The president of the company is a woman named Carla Wallace, who is an amazing publisher who just has a knack for female artists.

Jessie James Decker

Dog Woman Yellow Amazing President

With 'Interpreter,' I didn't know it was ever going to be a book, that they were going to be published. I was writing them in a vacuum for the most part. They were my apprentice work. Then the stories happened to become a book.

Work Writing Book Know Become Going

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

Win You Kentucky Derby Unless

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Hope Heart Past Mind Shame Where

Improv classes were too expensive, so I just started going to open mics. And the day I did it, I did, like, three because I just loved it so much. It was so much fun. And it wasn't good, it was just fun to do. It felt like a release.

Good Day Fun Loved Three Open

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

Woman Know My Own Human Singer Own

Rock and roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear. There's no more edge or rebellion that sets it apart from the norm.

Rock And Roll Edge Rock Become More

I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.

Thought Never Quick Happen Little

The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.

Writing Singing Trying Back Go Out

The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.

I Am Dawn Accomplish Wall Will Need

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

Person Now True More Events Take

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