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Wynton Marsalis has 130 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of…
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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…
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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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Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
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The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
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I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
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As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…
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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…
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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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Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
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Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if…
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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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In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
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I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second…
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And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I…
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He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
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Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just…
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I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and…
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