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Branford Marsalis Quotes

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.

Branford Marsalis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Language America Jazz Spirit Asking

I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it's my go-to.

Jodi Benson

Music Prayer Soul Me My Soul Back

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Andrew Jackson

Fun Doing Nothing Pleasure Having

I had a period where everything... if it's raining, I'm angry because it's raining. If I miss, it's because the pitch is too wet. It was only excuses. It was not good.

Alvaro Morata

Good Angry Excuses Everything Wet

When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.

Steven Sater

Music Myself Identity Ideas End Say

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

Sia

People Me Person Meet Real Stage

I see videomaking as an art - it's not a process for me.

Michelle Phan

Art Me Process See I See

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

Cillian Murphy

Music Guitar Play My Own Own

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

Linus Torvalds

Important Company The Most Important

I'm definitely a cult artist.

Juliana Hatfield

Artist Cult Definitely

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

Emanuel Celler

Me Rose Color Back Brooklyn Emotion

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

Elle Fanning

Greatest Just Like Then Ever Foster

Being Sting's daughter hasn't kicked any doors open for me - he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It's all been down to me so far, and that's how I want to keep it.

Eliot Sumner

Daughter Me Doors Career Down Want