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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it."
Explore more quotes by Branford Marsalis
"You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't."
"If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so."
"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
"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?"
"There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over."
"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."
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
"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."
"Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic."
"If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay."
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