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Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

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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Many
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Jazz

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When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.
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We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
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We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music.
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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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The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.
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We all teach from that same frame of reference. We're like neighborhood - the people who have had the opportunity through this music to gain a platform and spread the message of this music, which is basically love in a form of communication that's honest and truthful.
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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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I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
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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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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
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The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.
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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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The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
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Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.
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The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
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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 wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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