Branford Marsalis Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.”

“It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.”

“Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.”

“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?”

“You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.”

“I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.”