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Branford Marsalis Quotes

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You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don’t.  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) What is jazz? It, It’s almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It’s a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you’re going to play. I’m saying let’s break the formula  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there’s no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don’t know as much about music  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) The lion’s share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. and all the musicians who were successful in the 60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don’t listen. They come by it honestly, americans don’t listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I’m going to see... Not, I’m going to hear  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) Jazz is so incestuous that it’s starting to kill itself  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) We all played bad before we played good  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) You don’t know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don’t  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) When you’re dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What’s the point of getting lofty?  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) That’s kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You’re out there predicting the future, and no one believes you  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it’s so incestuous that it’s starting to kill itself  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy’s dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren’t taken with the fact our dad was a musician  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) One of the things that’s clear to me from interviews that I’ve read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) It’s something that jazz has gotten away from, and it’s unfortunate. Players aren’t physical anymore  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there’s very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it’s melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn’t be fun; but since I’m like me, it’s okay  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) I’m not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) I like to make records sound good. I’m more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what’s the point?  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life  (Branford Marsalis Quotes) A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we’re doing in a trio format  (Branford Marsalis Quotes)
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