Reducer Quotes by Branford Marsalis

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Branford Marsalis has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
• If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort…
• A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio 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…
• I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.
• I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's…
• I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and…
• If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
• If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
• If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the…
• We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.
• Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive.…

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