"This is our bandstand. If you don't want……" — Wynton Marsalis
"This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave."
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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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More Bandstand Quotes
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If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed…
— Miles Davis
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The bandstand is a sacred place.
— Wynton Marsalis
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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th…
— Frederick Reines
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The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay…
— Bill Bruford
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
— Jerry Garcia
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I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to…
— Narada Michael Walden
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I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything…
— Chubby Checker
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My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day…
— Alice Cooper
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You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on…
— Charlie Parker
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We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom…
— Paul Simon
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How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and…
— Wynton Marsalis
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The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred…
— Stefon Harris
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