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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.

Wynton Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Jazz Musician
Trumpeter
New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
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Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
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The best way to be, is to do.
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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you sell only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.
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I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.
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Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.
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This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
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Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
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For Black people, we're one of the only groups of people that for some reason to express love of yourself, in some ways, is misconstrued as a dislike for someone else.
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Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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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.
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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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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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Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.
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The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.
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The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
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My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
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Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.
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