“I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,”… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on… — 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
Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can… — 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
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
When you study our greatest artists, you will find that they give us a key to understand how to deal with each… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of… — 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 worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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