Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel. — 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
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
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians. — 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
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
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 get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to… — 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
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
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
To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did. — 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
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great… — 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
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
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
The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable… — 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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