Art Quote by Norman Granz Download Open image “My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.” — Norman Granz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Function Genuine Producers
My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know… — Jermaine Dupri Copy Share Image
I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with.… — Leon Redbone Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads. — Karol G Copy Share Image
I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different in that,… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out. — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
People were like, 'You're crazy. You're going to lose all your credibility and fans.' But I wanted to try new things and make my… — DJ Snake Copy Share Image
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
I made an album that resonated, and I was lucky that a lot of different kinds of people liked it and contacted me to… — Peaches Copy Share Image
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… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
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. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
