"Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus……" — Wynton Marsalis
"Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are."
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130 Quotes by Wynton Marsalis
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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 Adjustment Quotes
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He…
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
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Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it…
— Juliette Binoche
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and…
— Vince Cable
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity…
— James Allen
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I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make…
— Nick Clegg
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
— John Playfair
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Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the…
— Leon Battista Alberti
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You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware…
— Jack Nicklaus
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We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical…
— Eric Hoffer
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible…
— Zhuangzi
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