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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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The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, This is for me.
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Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.
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Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.
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When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
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Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
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This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.
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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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There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.
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So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.
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We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
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I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
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Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.
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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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This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
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Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.
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It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is The Judge.
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Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
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When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'
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The bandstand is a sacred place.
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