"I think that virtuosity is the first sign……" — Wynton Marsalis
"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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130 Quotes by Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis has 130 quotes on this site.
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Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a…
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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…
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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…
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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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As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so…
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I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us…
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New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church…
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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…
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I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as…
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Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types…
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More First Sign Quotes
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in…
— Jean Charest
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The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common…
— Woody Harrelson
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Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.
— Solanus Casey
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You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets…
— Seymour Hicks
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their…
— Florence Nightingale
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The Revelation of the Báb may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac—the sign…
— Shoghi Effendi
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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing,…
— J C Ryle
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The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
— R C Sproul
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If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy,…
— Jack Handey
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Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege…
— Tim Wise
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There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is…
— Paul Erdos
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