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Branford Marsalis Quotes

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.

Branford Marsalis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 26, 1960

Topics

Life Man Performance Perfect Jazz

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

Max von Sydow

Great Humor Imagination Man Think

My children love Maleficent's voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Angelina Jolie

Love Home Children Me Voice Always

The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.

Anita Sarkeesian

Positive Inspirational Power Culture

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Michael Ignatieff

War People American You Invisible

Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.

Michael D. Barnes

Gun Insurance Hands Trying You Say

You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing.

John Sayles

Good Choices Think You Sometimes

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

Stevie Nicks

Thought Back Say Everything Poet

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

Sidney Sheldon

Woman Tea New York Me Lunch Lawyer

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?

Rob Delaney

Funny Brand Talking Clever Jokes

If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.

Michael Pollan

New York People City End Farm You

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

Michael Showalter

Good Think Doing You Out Own

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!

Christian Louboutin

Shoes Men Bridge Lunch Talking Lady