Branford Marsalis Quotes
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
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"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've used rivers to cleanse ourselves. And, for me, the lyrics "something in the river," I think is - well, the river is a metaphor for where I was at the time.
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I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
