We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems… — 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
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. — 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
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
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
