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Branford Marsalis

"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."

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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."

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Donna Grant

"I try not to do anything by formula."

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Donna Grant

"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."

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Donna Grant

"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

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Donna Grant

"They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera."

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Donna Grant

"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"

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Donna Grant

"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."

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Donna Grant

"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."

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Donna Grant

"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."

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Donna Grant

"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."

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Donna Grant

"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."

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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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