Branford Marsalis Quotes
If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.Branford Marsalis
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine -
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes -
Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
Damian Marley -
I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
Ram Kapoor -
Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
Aarti Sequeira -
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx -
Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
T. C. Boyle -
I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
Oliver Reed -
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
Ralph Fiennes
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
Gabriel Byrne -
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom -
Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
Candace Parker -
The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
Aaron Ciechanover -
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
Samantha Bee
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While the American people have had a big heart, President Trump has had a big mouth, and he has used it to insult the people of Puerto Rico.
Carmen Yulin Cruz -
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill -
Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as 'us and them,' with executives on one side and employees on the other. The divide is both real and expensive.
Punit Renjen -
I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
Dana Perino -
You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
Brian De Palma -
If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
Branford Marsalis