Branford Marsalis 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
It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
You're very powerful, Clara," Dad says. "Even for a Triplare, you're remarkable. Your connection is strong and steady.
— Cynthia Hand
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
Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.
— Branford Marsalis
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
It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.
— Woody Hayes
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
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
— Branford Marsalis
So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)
— Peter S. Beagle
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
In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.
— Ernst T. Krebs
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
— Branford Marsalis
You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.
— Branford Marsalis
Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.
— Robert C. Solomon
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
Oh baby, your planet sounds like paradise but it just doesn't fly down here in the trenches.
— Poppet