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Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. T

Branford Marsalis

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
You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don’t.
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Brain Sometimes Song
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
Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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Looks Music Simplicity
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
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Findings Homework Voice
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
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 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 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
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
I’m not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
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Albums Jazz Play Sense
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
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
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
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Jobs Music Song

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