"Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And……" — Wynton Marsalis
"Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them."
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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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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast…
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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how…
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When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they…
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Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.
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Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of…
— Caroline Myss
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"We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..."…
— Unknown Author
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If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the…
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other…
— Richard Holbrooke
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The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand…
— N. T. Wright
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I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.
— Jim Ramstad
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When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we…
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