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

Branford Marsalis

So much of Jazz doesn’t have an audience other than music students or musicians.
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Jazz Music Students
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
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Jobs Music Song
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
When you’re dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What’s the point of getting lofty?
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Identification Mean Titles
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
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
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
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
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Findings Homework Voice
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.
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Doors Needs Thinking

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