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

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
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
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
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
Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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Looks Music Simplicity
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
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
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
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
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
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
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Jobs Music Song
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
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Findings Homework Voice
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 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

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