Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.
Bruno Mars
I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The... →
I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep... →
The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more... →
Branford Marsalis
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... →
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?
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... →
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... →
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country... →
Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.