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So much of Jazz doesn’t have an audience other than music students or musicians.

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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People Piano Times Tough
So much of Jazz doesn’t have an audience other than music students or musicians.
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Jazz Music Students
If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn’t be fun; but since I’m like me, it’s okay.
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Fun Okay 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
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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Couple Sound Stupid Trails
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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Biggest Country Kids People
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
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 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
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
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
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
Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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Looks Music Simplicity
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
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Jobs Music Song
If it’s not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what’s the point of playing Terrapin Station?
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Ifs Sound Stations

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