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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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Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through…
— Tim Harford
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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…
— Wynton Marsalis
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I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part.…
— Leslie Caron
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The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict,…
— Theodor Adorno
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come…
— Gerhard Richter
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Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it…
— Seth Godin
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Whenever the keys to self-esteem are seemingly out of reach for a large percentage of the people, as in twentieth-century America, then…
— James Dobson
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Tell me about it if it's something human. Let me into your grief.
— Robert Frost
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