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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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"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."

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Donna Grant

"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

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Donna Grant

"It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."

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Donna Grant

"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

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Donna Grant

"I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth."

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Donna Grant

"We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward."

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Donna Grant

"At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it."

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Donna Grant

"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

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

Jazz

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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?"

Artist

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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."

Love

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

Jazz

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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."

Money

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Branford Marsalis
"The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music."

Music

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Branford Marsalis
"You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't."

Work

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Branford Marsalis
"When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?"

Music

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Branford Marsalis
"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."

Instinct

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Branford Marsalis
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"

Sound

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