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I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.
Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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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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The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.
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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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Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.
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What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.
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If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.
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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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Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
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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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We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
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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.
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Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
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We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.
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I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
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Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.
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It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
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Don't bullshit' just play.
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