Branford Marsalis Music Quotations

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

We have more faith in the music than the people at major labels have. I'm always thinking of ways to enhance the music and the way we think about it.