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Trumpeter Inspirational Quotes (614)

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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 understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.
Wynton Marsalis
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I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
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I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.
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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.
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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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