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Jazz Quotes by Branford Marsalis
- I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
- The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the…
- It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
- The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want…
- Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
- So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
- Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
- I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
More Jazz Quotes
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- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
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- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned… — Steven Adler