Branford Marsalis Quotes

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

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• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Work
  • Process
  • Old

• Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Why
  • Society
  • Giving

• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Think
  • First
  • Contract

• I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • World
  • Think
  • Childhood

• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Support
  • Party
  • Security

• Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Real
  • Heart

• Tradition has made women cowardly.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Women
  • Made
  • Tradition

• City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • City
  • Health
  • Measure

• My own agenda is going to be followed, and that agenda is to maintain very good relations with the international community, and Lebanon has to fulfill its commitments.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Community
  • Own

• Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Age

• What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • School
  • Learning
  • Justice

• Nobody tells me fuck all!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Real
  • Tea

• It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.

  

  Janette Rallison
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

  

  Charles Munch
  • Light
  • Miracle

• Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being’s road, Eternity by term.Our pace took sudden awe, Our feet reluctant led. Before were cities, but between, The forest of the dead.Retreat was out of hope,- Behind, a sealed route, Eternity’s white flag before, And God at every gate.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Hope
  • Road

• What you need and what you want aren't the same things.

  

  Cherise Sinclair
  • Want
  • Needs

• I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

  

  Branford Marsalis