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Play Quotes by Wynton Marsalis
- As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process…
- Don't bullshit' just play.
- This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
- But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value,…
- Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.
- Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark…
- I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
- The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an…
- I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
- Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get…
- I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
- In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about…
- When people dress well, they play well.
- When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't.
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