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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Digital cinema isn't ready for prime time.
KURT HALL We've been debating this for quite some time. That one gauge at Branford basically monitored the who...
KAREN PARKER They wouldn't announce this unless it was ready for prime time.
CARMI LEVY The question you raise, 'is digital TV ready for prime time?' And it's not. It's still in the concep...
SCOTT CLELAND The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoide...
BRANFORD MARSALIS Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We'r...
BRANFORD MARSALIS The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it ho...
BRANFORD MARSALIS Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
BRANFORD MARSALIS New Orleans is probably the only city in America that has its own culture. There are things you can'...
BRANFORD MARSALIS I think musicians have been the lifeline to this city because it's a tourist town and we don't have ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS We're going to create a fund to have them play concerts or have them record for us. We're talking ab...
BRANFORD MARSALIS [Because of their unique place in the New Orleans sound, brass bands are receiving special attention...
BRANFORD MARSALIS The record industry is changing, and sooner or later we had to face the reality that there's not a l...
BRANFORD MARSALIS Pay attention to me, please.
BRANFORD MARSALIS We are extremely grateful to Dave Matthews Band and the wonderful citizens of Denver for stepping up...
BRANFORD MARSALIS What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular...
BRANFORD MARSALIS It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a p...
BRANFORD MARSALIS The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no pia...
BRANFORD MARSALIS I would say the technology has some problems. From a legislative standpoint, this stuff ain't ready ...
MARK SKILES I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
GARY LUCAS I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
TEA LEONI They're going to be going at a level that they're not quite ready to go at on the seventh of March.
JIM TRACY The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.
PAUL HORN I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.
ALEXA CHUNG Everything is pretty much in place. There are only a few last-minute details to work out. But we are...
BILL THRELKELD Merkel gave a better performance than expected. There were big questions whether she was ready for p...
LUTZ ERBRING I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends b...
EMMA CAULFIELD I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.
PAULA COLE I feel really sorry for the players at this time of year. I find it quite pathetic to be truthful.
KARL HARRISON What does an electrician in East Haven care about Branford? It just doesn't add up. What is so impor...
KURT SCHWANFELDER I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship...
ADRIAN MITCHELL For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good p...
DAVID MILCH At Faulkner we have a junior varsity and varsity team, which gives the players experience and time t...
ANDY PRIOLA Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever,...
KAMAND KOJOURI Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
PAUL ELDRIDGE Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him
PAUL ELDRIDGE As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for...
DAVID OYELOWO I can't really worry about those things. I just have to get ready for this week and hope I get close...
DOMONIQUE FOXWORTH As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, bu...
JAN VOGLER I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Rumors travel fast in Cuba. Artists know I'm there before I get there. It's not hard to find the art...
ALLISON HILL I hate artists who are not of their time.
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Coach (Brian) Atkins runs a really good program at Branford. I think our biggest problem against Bra...
BRIAN WHITE I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship...
ADRIAN MITCHELL As far as I'm concerned, and I hope for the prime minister too, you can't pay a political price (for...
MARIANO RAJOY I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and c...
PAT METHENY A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I'm not quite ready for that super part...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN We view this change as an opportunity for us. We'll be working hard over the next few months to repr...
ANDREW BUTCHER Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ...
DEREK E. GORDON #farmersofpeace & #farmersoflove, this is the season to plant seeds of #positivity. The soil is prim...
KēVENS Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'...
ADRIAN LYNE Guys are responding to the leadership role in the quarterback position. I've been ready for a long t...
J.P. LOSMAN Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
EARL OF DERBY What hasn't he done for prime time is more the question. I think he has brought a strong new creativ...
ANNE SWEENEY On the Democratic side, we've had somebody looking at it for a long time. From the party's perspecti...
JASON WILLETT I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
BEL POWLEY The fact that young hip-hop artists are searching for the jazz roots of their music acknowledges the...
HERBIE HANCOCK I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
GARY LARSON Gold is not quite ready yet to move in the upward bias.
JOE ISMAIL I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get toge...
NICOLE BEHARIE I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and a...
LAURA DERN Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century m...
KEN BURNS I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.
CHRISTIAN SCOTT Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that whe...
ADRIAN LYNE As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready ...
GARTH ENNIS Together with the other opposition block I think we will have a very stable majority. I am ready to ...
IVICA RACAN You will find everything ready on the morning of April 1 and I hope the guests will enjoy the new fa...
FAZLUR RAHMAN I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I hope he wins - I'm rooting for him now. I think he's ready to win a state championship.
HENRY AGALLAR There are quite a number of local artists and a great deal of local talent. It's good for us and our...
CONNIE ACEVEDO His leg isn't quite ready.
BILL DOBA At that stage Trevor wasn't quite ready.
JOHN WEISS No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER Well, it's about like getting ready for open-heart surgery. It's quite a challenge. It's not an easy...
JOE KINES I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find differe...
CASSANDRA WILSON I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this
HUGH HAMILTON Some of our competitors believe (digital cinema) is ready for prime time. We believe that, like film...
CURT BEHLMER I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i...
NAT WOLFF I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where j...
AGNES OBEL This is the prime time right now. They're there.
DAN ZIMMERMAN I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a tim...
GINGER ROGERS I am not comparing myself to great artists, but when you see conceptual artists at work, on some lev...
STEWART LEE I think it's time to do something different, to find an interesting theme that brings together artis...
BRITTA ERICKSON We're prepared to sit down and talk, I'm not quite sure they're ready to talk yet.
DAVID SANDERSON [Does Piazza feel jazz is an acquired taste?] If by 'acquired taste' you mean that jazz resists imme...
TOM PIAZZA No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER I suppose the market should've shown some respect to the Prime Minister, but expectations that deman...
HITOSHI ICHIO Eden has a product that's really neat. Like a number of companies (going public) now, they have a pr...
FRANCIS GASKINS Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone ...
LADY GAGA I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and sw...
LEE BYUNG-HUN The French-they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
BILLY HIGGINS I'm ready to get back. I probably could have come back a while ago, but it just wasn't quite ready.
JEFF SATURDAY We celebrate our history and the new generation of young emerging jazz artists who dedicate their he...
DEREK E. GORDON I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection ...
KURT ELLING Leading politicians, including Prime Minister Hashimoto, realize the central government has not been...
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WYNTON MARSALIS We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
WYNTON MARSALIS I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
WYNTON MARSALIS I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I go...
WYNTON MARSALIS The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've co...
WYNTON MARSALIS The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ...
WYNTON MARSALIS I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study...
WYNTON MARSALIS Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form th...
WYNTON MARSALIS My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world ...
WYNTON MARSALIS What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be...
WYNTON MARSALIS I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We en...
WYNTON MARSALIS There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you ...
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WYNTON MARSALIS My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, y...
WYNTON MARSALIS It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
WYNTON MARSALIS Thank the good Lord for a job.
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WYNTON MARSALIS Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress...
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WYNTON MARSALIS I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstractio...
WYNTON MARSALIS We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
WYNTON MARSALIS The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a youn...
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WYNTON MARSALIS We're going to kill ourselves this week to bring the spirit of jazz (back to New Orleans).
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WYNTON MARSALIS This girl, about 14, came to see me and I said, 'What are you doing out so late?'
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WYNTON MARSALIS We have a lot that we've offered this country. It's our art form. It's America's art form.
WYNTON MARSALIS We want to concentrate on rebirth and rebuilding.
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WYNTON MARSALIS My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professio...
WYNTON MARSALIS Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinen...
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WYNTON MARSALIS When the water is pumped out and the lights are back on, we're definitely going back.
ELLIS MARSALIS It's just so many people. I've been there (the festival) since the beginning.
ELLIS MARSALIS I told her, 'I'll be there -- if you wake me up! Just let the phone ring a lot.'
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WYNTON MARSALIS Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
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