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Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.

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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Wish
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I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
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This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
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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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If you want to be different, do something different.
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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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There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.
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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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But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.
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Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
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I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
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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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Don't bullshit' just play.
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When I say our, I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black person, just like a great achievement by an Anglo American is less important.
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When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play but I couldn't.
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We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
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Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never know who Walt Whitman was, and never read a poem.
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Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
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Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are.
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