Together Quotes by Wynton Marsalis

9 Together quotes by Wynton Marsalis

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Marsalis’s jazz‑infused perspective translates into concise, rhythmic reflections on unity, each line swinging with the cadence of a well‑played solo.

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My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

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Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together…

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

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For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price…

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The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together.…

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I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is…

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Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us?…

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Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The…

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

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I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for…

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I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

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“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…

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Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

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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.

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Ethics are more important than laws.

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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…

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Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead…

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“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they…

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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…

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Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

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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…

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