"Love is the spiritual essence of what we……" — Wynton Marsalis
"Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love."
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130 Quotes by Wynton Marsalis
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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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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very…
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
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