#stand

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me. ↗

— Marc Maron

#i #make #me #next #trick

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. ↗

— Marc Maron

#comedians #create #created #demand #easy

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#head #i #imagination #music #never

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

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#break #formula #give #give me #go

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#been #country #generation #higher #higher standard

The bandstand is a sacred place. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#place #sacred

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Eric Massa

#because #bill #care #come #deciding

I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do. ↗

— Diana Ross

#better #careers #feel #feet #i