"What, other than injustice, could be the reason……" — Wynton Marsalis
"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"
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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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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto…
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It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the…
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being…
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If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it-through the words you use…
— Victoria Moran
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things…
— Galileo Galilei
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Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one…
— Luce Irigaray
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great…
— George Washington
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Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.
— Ian Tattersall
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Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche…
— Kenny Smith
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Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated…
— Niall Williams
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This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say…
— Trevor Manuel
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