If it’s not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what’s the point of playing Terrapin Station?
BRANFORD MARSALISOne 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.
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Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. T
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The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, “We all start off sounding like other cats.
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So much of Jazz doesn’t have an audience other than music students or musicians.
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Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
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I’m not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
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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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My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
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Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don’t listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don’t listen anyway.
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What is jazz? It, It’s almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It’s a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
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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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Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
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When people go to concerts, they say I’m going to see… not, I’m going to hear.
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You know, being America, being the land of “number ones”, everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.
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It’s hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there’s no buzz, there’s no interest.
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