Ability Quote by Wynton Marsalis

When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she’s Ava Gardner. It’s the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor,…

— Grace Kelly

When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in…

— Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

— Wynton Marsalis

To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz musicians that…

— Wynton Marsalis

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo…

— Wynton Marsalis

He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been…

— Wynton Marsalis

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on…

— Wynton Marsalis

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other…

— Wynton Marsalis

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She…

— Edith Head

Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle,…

— Oleg Cassini

I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

— Kylie Bax

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…

— Wynton Marsalis