Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We all teach from that same frame of reference. We're like neighborhood - the people who have had the opportunity through this… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,'… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“And the thing about jazz, through all the business involved in practicing and improvement, it's always sweet: the improvement that you notice… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas...… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
“The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
“I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,” the people… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share
![“He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced?…” quote by Wynton Marsalis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6ff/wynton-marsalis-1721_art_he-benny-carter-is-all-that-every-jazz-m_2002120.jpg)
