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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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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
— Harold Bloom
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If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama…
— David Frawley
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If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade
— Propertius
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
— Joseph Joubert
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No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music…
— Wynton Marsalis
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
— Raymond Queneau
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No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.
— Julian Jaynes
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
— Raymond Queneau
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,…
— George Saintsbury
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
— Raymond Queneau
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