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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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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs…
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My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now.…
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of…
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Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
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I was one of the only girls in my high school that didn't get a nose job. And if anybody needed it,…
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First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot...and that's how I got to know the people 'half in' the society…
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I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to…
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