"The real power of Jazz is that a……" — Wynton Marsalis
"The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art"
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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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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,…
— Michelle Bachelet
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The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
— Michele Bachmann
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But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing…
— Warren Beatty
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American…
— John Boehner
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're…
— George W. Bush
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot…
— Abdallah II
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
— David Byrne
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The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want…
— Eric Cantor
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But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction…
— Eric Cantor
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The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome…
— Nick Cave
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