#eat

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#apart #entirely #expansive #great #great virtues

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

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#greater #looked #much #our #our father

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?' ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#band #because #director #ellis #excited

When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#could #everybody #first #i #like

That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me. ↗

— Eric Massa

#around #breath #chemotherapy #cold #cold weather

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. ↗

— Allan Massie

#bad #because #between #blunders #choice

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box. ↗

— Pat Mastelotto

#box #boxes #fed up #i #like