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Branford Marsalis

"What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America."

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"What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America."

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Donna Grant

"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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Donna Grant

"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

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Donna Grant

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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Donna Grant

"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

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Donna Grant

"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man."

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Donna Grant

"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."

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Donna Grant

"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."

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Donna Grant

"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."

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Donna Grant

"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."

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Donna Grant

"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."

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Branford Marsalis
"There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record."

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Branford Marsalis
"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid."

Play

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Branford Marsalis
"A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format."

Time

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Branford Marsalis
"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."

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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?"

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Branford Marsalis
"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."

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Branford Marsalis
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

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Branford Marsalis
"I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company."

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Branford Marsalis
"One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community."

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Branford Marsalis
"Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups."

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