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I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#band #could #family #i #i wish

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#format #hearing #lot #musicians #time

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #gotten #jazz #physical #players

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#future #how #jazz #kind #like

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty? ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#dealing #else #getting #identification #lofty

Love isn’t a series of slogans like “Just do it,” “It’s the real thing,” or “Go ahead, stick it in my butt.” Love is much more than that. Love is also a logo. I know, because I have it tattooed on my ass. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #logo #love #nike #slogan

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#marriage #relationships #age

(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#crush-them-with-logic #anger

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#later #now #someone #wish #you

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#first #first time #hymn #i #marine