Norman Granz Quotes

I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

I wanna get the streets riled back up. I wanna get super tours and bookings.

The best part of touring has to be playing shows.

I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.

I've been touring now since about '68.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.

My first artist bus was Jason Aldean's old bus, with deer antlers over the lights and cowhide on the back of the couches. It was such an absolute dude bus.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

Vegas, when we go on tour, is one of the hottest spots for not only people in the United States, but international fans.

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can.

We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.

As a rock fan, you read of the big labels and the multinationals and the big tours with road crews and semi-trailers full of gear, and playing stadiums. In the '90s, that's what we did.

I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.

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 love touring; if it were up to me I'd be touring all the time.

You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.

What I do miss is foreign travel, because there really is no substitute for showing up somewhere and representing the United States.