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Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

Branford Marsalis

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
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
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
What is jazz? It, It’s almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It’s a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
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Asking Country Musical People
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
I’m not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
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Albums Jazz Play Sense
Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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Looks Music Simplicity
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

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