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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But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.
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I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.
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The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.
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You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.
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Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.
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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?