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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'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
— Andre Agassi
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
— Adam Carolla
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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field,…
— Hank Aaron
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The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.
— Tris Speaker
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"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread…
— Tommy Bolt
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Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry…
— Michael Bamberger
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms…
— Djuna Barnes
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I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler.
— David Feherty
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The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the…
— Justus von Liebig
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I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for…
— Jordin Sparks
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