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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."
"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."
"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."
"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."
Explore more quotes by Branford Marsalis
"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?"
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
"Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic."
"If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold."
"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
"I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself."
"The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear."
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