My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every… — 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
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,… — 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
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you… — 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
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — 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
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. — 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
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
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
When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with… — 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
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get… — 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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