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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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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice…
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Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside…
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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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It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
— Neil Peart
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Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
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Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
— Jimmy Chamberlin
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I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.
— Jimmy Chamberlin
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Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.
— Babatunde Olatunji
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Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.
— Unknown Author
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The whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming…
— Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
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If you try to grasp Zen in movement, it goes into stillness. If you try to grasp Zen in stillness, it goes…
— Linji Yixuan
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There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to…
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