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This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.
Wynton Marsalis
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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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If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.
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We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
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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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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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The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.
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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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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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I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.
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Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
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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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