"When I first came to New York everybody……" — Wynton Marsalis
"When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't."
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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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