I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
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… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
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… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
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… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
