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Branford Marsalis

"My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician."

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"My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician."

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Donna Grant

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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Donna Grant

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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Donna Grant

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

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Donna Grant

"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."

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Donna Grant

"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."

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Donna Grant

"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."

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Donna Grant

"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."

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Donna Grant

"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."

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Donna Grant

"My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house."

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Donna Grant

"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."

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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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Branford Marsalis
"My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician."

Father

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