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

Branford Marsalis

One 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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Band Listening Musician
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
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
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Findings Homework Voice
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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Community Halloween Successful
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
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Jobs Music Song
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
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
So much of Jazz doesn’t have an audience other than music students or musicians.
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Jazz Music Students
Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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Looks Music Simplicity
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
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
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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People Piano Times Tough
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
I’m not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
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Albums Jazz Play Sense
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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Inspiring Men Perfect
his special ability enables Walter to communicate with aspiring musicians in a way that removes the sense of mystery that sometimes enshrouds our profession.
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Enshroud Profession Remove Special

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