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When people go to concerts, they say I’m going to see… not, I’m going to hear.

Branford Marsalis

When people go to concerts, they say I’m going to see… not, I’m going to hear.
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Concert Going People
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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Cat Player Rip
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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Dad House Taken
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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Asking Country Musical People
Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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Looks Music Simplicity
You know, being America, being the land of “number ones”, everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.
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Country Land Numbers
So much of Jazz doesn’t have an audience other than music students or musicians.
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Jazz Music Students
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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Day New Country Talking
I’m not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
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Albums Jazz Play Sense
I don’t care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.
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Care Swings Use
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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Skills Successful Understanding
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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Culture Focus Intellectual
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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Average Giving Play
You don’t know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.
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Jazz Music Order
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
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Findings Homework Voice
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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Artist Records Sound

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