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

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Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

Norman Granz

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

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If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

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

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