Q: What happened to your gig as "creative consultant" for Columbia?

A: Their priorities are different than mine. My priority is to make music, their priority is to sell records, and we couldn't find a middle ground on that.

--Branford Marsalis, interviewed in Downbeat (October 2000)

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