Branford Quotes
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We all played bad before we played good.
— Branford Marsalis
If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
— Branford Marsalis
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
I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.
— Branford Marsalis
There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.
— Branford Marsalis
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
— Branford Marsalis
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
— Branford Marsalis
Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
— Branford Marsalis
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
— Branford Marsalis
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
You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
— Branford Marsalis
There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.
— Branford Marsalis
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
— Nadine Gordimer
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
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
It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
— George Bernard Shaw
Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.
— Branford Marsalis
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
— Henry James
I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.
— Andy Couturier
It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
— Branford Marsalis
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
As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.
— Bruce Springsteen
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
— Branford Marsalis
What was the message that Muhammad considered so important? Essentially this: God is not a father, and He has no son.
— Nabeel Qureshi
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
— Branford Marsalis
It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.
— Branford Marsalis
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
— Branford Marsalis
In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.
— Nelson Rodrigues
You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.
— Branford Marsalis
He had wasted the span of my entire life.
— Cameron Dokey
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