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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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I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at…
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Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.
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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 still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where…
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If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme…
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I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
— Marian McPartland
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You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
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Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy -…
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I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
— Ginger Baker
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In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.
— Robert Cray
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In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?…
— Woody Shaw
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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
— Herbie Hancock
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