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I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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Wynton Learson Marsalis
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