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I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the…

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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…
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…
Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from…
Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we…
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,…
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if…
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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I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,'… — Wynton Marsalis
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It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. — Sherman Alexie
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