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How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

Wynton Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
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Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
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Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.
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The bandstand is a sacred place.
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I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
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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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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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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
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The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
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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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Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
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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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We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
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Ethics are more important than laws.
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