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.
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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Where there is love there is life.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
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In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.
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I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.
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It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'
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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.
