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97 quotes by Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the son of jazz...
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I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that... →

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Ethics are more important than laws.

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Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country... →

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We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

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Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

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Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how... →

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Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

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Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain... →

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Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a... →

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I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes... →

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I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.

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Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

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