Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all… — 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
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves 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
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed… — 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 love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that… — 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
