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I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

Wynton Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
Bandleader
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Jazz Musician
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
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Jazz is democracy in music.
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The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
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Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
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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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Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.
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When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.
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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.
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Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.
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What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.
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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
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The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.
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I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.
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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
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In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.
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Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
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I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.
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I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music.
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Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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