"One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community."

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Source : "Branford Marsalis: It's All About The Band". Interview with Russ Musto, www.allaboutjazz.com. January 12, 2005.

Branford Marsalis

#Successful Quotes #Community Quotes #Musician Quotes

“Knock, Knock." "Who's there?" "Olive." "Olive who?" "Olive...ooh. I love you, too," he said, figuring it out. "You can tell me that one anytime you like." He folded her into his arms.”
“For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1993). “Islam at the Crossroads”, p.18, The Other Press
“For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.”
“As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.”
“The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.”

Source : Letter to Sophie Germain, April 30, 1807.
“People think photography is about photographing. To me, itâ€™s about relationships.”

Source : "Lynsey Addario: ‘It’s What I Do’". lens.blogs.nytimes.com. March 30, 2011.
“We don't want two-tier health care in Canada - one tier for Quebec and another tier for the rest of the country.”
“The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.”

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