"Jazz music is the power of now." — Wynton Marsalis
"Jazz music is the power of now."
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Wynton Marsalis
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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 Jazz Quotes
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one of 1,344 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
— Louis Armstrong
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
— Louis Armstrong
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You blows who you is.
— Louis Armstrong
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
— Louis Armstrong
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
— Lester Bangs
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I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything…
— Travis Barker
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
— Travis Barker
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
— Warren G. Bennis
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I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I…
— Steven Adler
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