Showing posts with label Branford Marsalis Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Branford Marsalis Quotes. Show all posts
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 there were too few groups." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"You know, being America, being the land of “number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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?" - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 of America." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid." -Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over." - Branford Marsalis
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 more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music." -Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you." -Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 beyond the music community." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 taken with the fact our dad was a musician." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic." -Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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 interest." - Branford Marsalis
