Tradition Quotes by Wynton Marsalis

8 Tradition quotes by Wynton Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis captures eight brief reflections on tradition, each line resonating like a jazz improvisation on familiar themes. The collection feels like a quick riff that honors the past while swinging forward.

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I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed…

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There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut…

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New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,…

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Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from…

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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,…

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To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz…

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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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We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all…

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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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