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.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
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I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.
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My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably an awesome experience that these people are having, but it's not a real one.
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Don't worry about trying to impress people... Just focus on how you can add value to their lives.
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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.
