People Quotes by Wynton Marsalis

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

— Wynton Marsalis

When people dress well, they play well.

— Wynton Marsalis

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.

— Wynton Marsalis

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if…

— Wynton Marsalis

This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

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

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

— Wynton Marsalis

The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas...…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

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

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

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

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

When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

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

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too…

— Wynton Marsalis

What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how…

— Wynton Marsalis

I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get…

— Wynton Marsalis

You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…

— Wynton Marsalis

The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on…

— Wynton Marsalis

We all teach from that same frame of reference. We're like neighborhood - the people who have had the opportunity through this…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get…

— Wynton Marsalis

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context…

— Wynton Marsalis

The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

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