#list

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

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

— Branford Marsalis

#fans #him #i #i love #jazz

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

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#american music #anyway #biggest #biggest problem #come

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

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#feel #i #like #listening #made

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#i #i think #journalists #medium #think

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#blacks #cherish #constitution #corrective #decency

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. ↗

— Yann Martel

#image #least #movie #novelist #page

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#added #any #declaration #doubt #doubts