Branford Marsalis Quotes

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

The press tends to reflect what's important to the country.

Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.

Going forward, which story will the media find more interesting, [Donald] Trump's or Hillary's [Clinton]? Does Hillary even have a story? Does anyone even care?

Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

I think there is always an ebb and flow in Hollywood about what is current.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

Do something good and you won’t make page one. Find something bad and you might make page one.

Scandal is news with a very human face, interesting to a high percentage of the American public.

What draws the press is conflict, corruption and scandal.

I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

'LIFE Magazine' decided to do a story about a young actress in Hollywood in 1954. And I made the cover. And I remember that the fellow who was doing the story on me said, 'Listen, kid, I just want you to know, if Eisenhower gets a cold, you're off the cover.'

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.

Charlie Sykes - someone none of us have ever heard of - is suddenly the star of MSNBC and CNN once he comes out against Trump.

There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.

The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.