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Branford Marsalis

"One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community."

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Akiroq Brost

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

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Akiroq Brost

"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

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Akiroq Brost

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Akiroq Brost

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

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Akiroq Brost

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

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Akiroq Brost

"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."

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Akiroq Brost

"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."

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Branford Marsalis
"The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid."

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

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

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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?"

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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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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."

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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."

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Branford Marsalis
"One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community."

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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."

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Branford Marsalis
"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."

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