Norman granz

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

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

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.

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.

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

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

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

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

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