All Branford Marsalis Quotes
- I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense. Album
- 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… Based
- A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format. Format
- 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… Classical
- I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show. Base
- 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? Artist
- 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… All
- If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay. Fun
- If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station? Funny
- 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… Beat
- We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire. Art
- Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability… Ability
- 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… Came
- 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… Actually Embodies
- 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… Audience
- There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record. Alley
- 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… Buys
- We all played bad before we played good. All
- Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you. Everybody
- 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… Dad