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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. ↗

— Norman Granz

#area #because #been #economic #enough

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years. ↗

— Norman Granz

#baltimore #been #better #bit #doing

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#art #between #black #charcoal #expression

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#finding #future #key #out #preventing

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#encouraging #executed #faithfully #government #guns

It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, "My God, how did I ever get here?" Then, about six months later, you say, "How the hell did the rest of them get here?" ↗

— Mike Gravel

#did #ever #excited #first #first time

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. ↗

— Robert Graves

#different #different colors #experiences #gets #heart

I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#camp #days #every #example #for example