Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format. — 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… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had… — 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
