#cia

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#musicians #need #perform #repertoire #romantic

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. ↗

— Don Marquis

#does #ever #get #gets #idea

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#captures #emotions #me #music #special

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#musician #perform #signed #sing #up

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #based #conceptual #criteria #down

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#because #elusive #hard #hold #how

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. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#dad #did #drives #fact #guy

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#always #band #could #davis #else

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. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#audiences #beyond #clear #community #had

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#avoid #avoided #entire #entire lives #hear