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Branford Marsalis

"I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show."

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Donna Grant

"We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence, a total immersion."

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Donna Grant

"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."

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Donna Grant

"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."

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Donna Grant

"The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy."

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Donna Grant

"Confession. Years ago, I was invited to a cocktail party for an Asian-American networking group. As I introduced myself to a Japanese businessman, I reached out and firmly shook his hand. Much to my embarrassment now, I automatically took my other hand and wrapped our hands in a "hand hug. This is a common gesture of friendship in the South. As his wife approached, however, she appeared appalled and felt disrespected that I was touching her husband. Our cultural differences were marked. Despite this cultural mishap, I was able to redeem myself. We all moved past it and delighted in an interesting conversation. Physical touch is a touchy topic (pun intended), especially when various cultures are involved."

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Donna Grant

"Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles."

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Donna Grant

"We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning."

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Donna Grant

"Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom."

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Donna Grant

"The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on being a hero, saving lives and surviving last, but it has nothing to do with dignity, serenity."

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Donna Grant

"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."

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Branford Marsalis
"I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show."

Culture

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Branford Marsalis
"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."

Care

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

Music

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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."

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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