Best Branford Marsalis Quotes
- 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 it… Easily
- 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? Anything Else
- Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself. Incestuous
- My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me. Emotional
- So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. Audience
- Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity. Look
- You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything. Inspirational
- Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic. Fans
- One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for… Always Pick
- I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little… Actually Start
- I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself. Incestuous
- 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… Buzz
- 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 go… American
- 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 the… Certain
- You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't. Brain