BRANFORD MARSALIS, musician:
I am over people telling me - a jazz musician - how much they like and listen to jazz, only to find out in a matter of seconds they have no idea what jazz is. Try to inform them and you often meet indignation and the ever-defensive, "Well, what is jazz?" I would like to introduce these folks to Confucius, who said, "If the names are not correct, the judgments are not clear. If the judgments are not clear, the works are not accomplished. If the works are not accomplished, then rites and music do not flourish . . ."
(Robert E. Klein for The Boston Globe)

- Discuss What are you 'so over' in 2007?
- Print the full list Over and Out (Dec. 28)

