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I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.

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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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The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
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For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price that was paid to contribute to that, that we just have not gotten that together. I will do all that I can to get in front of our kids, to try to teach them, but at a certain point the people have to want it and come towards it.
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To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz musicians that at this point the entirety of the American tradition is your heritage, and you need to know it.
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I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
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The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
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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 play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
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And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.
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Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
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Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
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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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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
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What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.
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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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There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.
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The bandstand is a sacred place.
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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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There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
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Jazz is democracy in music.
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