"There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When……" — Wynton Marsalis
"There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising."
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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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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to…
— Jack Black
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
— Johannes Brahms
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When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can…
— Dave Brubeck
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.
— George Carlin
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All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to…
— H. L. Mencken
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You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.
— Deepak Chopra
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams
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