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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.

Branford Marsalis

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
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Findings Homework Voice
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
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Jobs Music Song
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
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

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