Branford Marsalis Quotes

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

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• If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Believe
  • Professional
  • Rules

• It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Busy

• After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Stop
  • Health
  • Focus

• Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Acting

• If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Home
  • Immigration
  • Solution

• The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Self

• I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • Want
  • Frustration

• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • More
  • Consciousness
  • His

• My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Period
  • Curiosity

• On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Passion
  • Poetry
  • Person

• Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Nostalgia
  • Speculation
  • Idle

• People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • People
  • Want
  • Career

• I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • Play
  • Instruments

• I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Lyrics
  • Saying
  • Cats

• Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Me
  • Regret
  • More

• I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• Every time we ignore the suffering of others or stand by and watch, we do not only act against our own interests but we violate a part of our humanity.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Time
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• Without bolder action, our children won't have time to debate the existence of climate change. They'll be busy dealing with its effects: more environmental disasters, more economic disruptions, waves of climate refugees seeking sanctuary.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Action

• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Good
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.

  

  Arthur Baer
  • She

• Discipline, focus, clarity of vision, listening more than you speak, all these kinds of things enabled me to absorb all that Richard Avedon had to teach when I was an employee of his. It wasn’t an internship, I was hired.

  

  Jonathan Mannion
  • Focus
  • Vision
  • Discipline

• I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

  

  Branford Marsalis