#way

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#bittersweet #everything #feel #had #happen

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

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. ↗

— Diana Ross

#closed #comes #fingers #grains #hand

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#fans #handful #haters #pick #some

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

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#certain #certain way #dress #i #music

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#always #democracy #hear #major #participation

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#another #dr #fostered #king #modern