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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.

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
Love
Preparation
Technique
Investment
Result
Essence
Results
Passion
Spiritual
Manifestation

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Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.
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Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
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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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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
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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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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.
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If you want to be different, do something different.
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In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.
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I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
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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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This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
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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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I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.
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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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Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.
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There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.
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When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.
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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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