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Bandleader Inspirational Quotes (1464)

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Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good it does.
Wynton Marsalis
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The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
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There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
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My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
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When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
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There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
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Don't bullshit' just play.
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The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
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The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
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There's the tradition in jazz of having the “Battle of the Bands” and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
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New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.
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Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
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No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
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What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.
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If you want to be different, do something different.
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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
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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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Thank the good Lord for a job.
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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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Ethics are more important than laws.
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I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
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