“All my students are really interested in hearing is how right they are and how good they are, the same mentality that basically forces Harvard to give out B’s to people that don’t deserve them out of the fear that they’ll go to other schools that will give them B’s and those schools will make the money.
We live in a country that seems to be in this massive state of delusion, where the idea of what you are is more important than you actually being that.
All they want to hear is how good they are and how talented they are, and most of them aren’t really willing to work to the degree to live up to that.

Today, Stevie Wonder would not get a shot (in the music industry)”

– Jazz legend Branford Marsalis, from the documentary film, ‘Before Music Dies’

Check out the film, it’s a great, honest look at the music industry today.

Before Music Dies documentary

Thanks Sarah Lynn for sharing this film with me.

Tags: before music dies, Branford Marsalis, delusion, documentary, film, Harvard, Linkedin, music industry, school, Stevie Wonder, student, talent

This entry was posted on Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 9:15 am and is filed under Business, music, society, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.