What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each... →
Wynton Marsalis
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a... →
I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the... →
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether... →
My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and... →
Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could... →
I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I... →
Amanda Marshall