Norman Granz Quotes

I landed gigs touring with The Jonas Brothers and Britney Spears!

I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.

In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a real special player. Then I did a duet concert with Jim Hall at the 1990 Montreal Festival.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

Being someone who plays gigs and finding many, many memorable ones in different ways, I guess I'd have to say I don't really have a single favourite one that I could pick out.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

I love to play gigs.

I'm not a big raised stage fan.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

My father played with Air Supply, Yes, B.B. King and even Sheryl Crow when she first started out, so I've sort of been around the industry for a long time.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

I feel like it's been so crazy to get to open for people like Rascal Flatts, Lady A, Billy Currington.

I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.

Some collaborators might join forces in certain cities or special concerts. I'm excited to share the stage with some prestigious people that I love and respect.

You know, songs like 'Rock'n Me' were actually written to be played in large... for a hundred thousand people kind of gatherings. And a lot of what came out on 'Fly Like an Eagle' and 'Book of Dreams' was music that was put together to be played in big, big venues with big light shows.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.