I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It's our job to just do as much as we can to enlighten the people about it and to represent it by… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only… — 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
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
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
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
For Black people, we're one of the only groups of people that for some reason to express love of yourself, in some… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's 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
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
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
One thing about excellence, it&Mac226;s an exclusive club. And it&Mac226;s only for those who really want to pay dues to the s--.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass… — 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
What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how… — 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
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
I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is… — 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
It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get… — 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
There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get… — 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
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
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
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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