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Bandleader Inspirational Quotes (1464)

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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 you don't want to do.
Wynton Marsalis
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The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.
Wynton Marsalis
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The blues is always there. It's going to be hard out here, but it's all right. It's all right, and that's what the blues teaches you. You got to roll with the punches and find your equilibrium.
Wynton Marsalis
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Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.
Wynton Marsalis
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When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.
Wynton Marsalis
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We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's voice, and you'll notice that song in their voice.
Wynton Marsalis
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The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
Wynton Marsalis
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There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.
Wynton Marsalis
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If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.
Wynton Marsalis
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I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
Xavier Cugat
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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
Louis Armstrong
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock
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Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
Wynton Marsalis
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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 enjoy many different types of music.
Wynton Marsalis
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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying Nobody can put a boundary around me.
Quincy Jones
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A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.
Jools Holland
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Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
Lionel Hampton
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You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.
Artie Shaw
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I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.
Jelly Roll Morton
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Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
Lawrence Welk
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Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.
Barry White
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I think women like to laugh, to have doors opened for them, to have a man walk behind them when they're going up steps, and in front of them when they're going down steps. As chauvinistic as that may sound, it's in my bones.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
Miles Davis
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In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.
Miles Davis
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