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Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.

Branford Marsalis

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
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’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 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
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
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Jobs Music Song
So much of Jazz doesn’t have an audience other than music students or musicians.
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Jazz Music Students
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
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
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
I’m not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
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Albums Jazz Play Sense
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
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
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
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
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
Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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Looks Music Simplicity

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