"If you are serious about American culture and……" — Wynton Marsalis
"If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it."
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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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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…
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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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More Afro Quotes
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one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to…
— William Wells Brown
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.…
— Malcolm X
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans…
— Thurgood Marshall
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps…
— Malcolm X
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Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was…
— Helen McCrory
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In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really…
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the…
— Harryette Mullen
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man…
— Ida B. Wells
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
— Ida B. Wells
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It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the…
— Malcolm X
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch…
— Colson Whitehead
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I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be…
— Miriam Makeba
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