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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
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Passion
Spiritual
Manifestation
Love
Preparation
Technique
Investment
Result
Essence

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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
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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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It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.
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Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
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The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
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What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.
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Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
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This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
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Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
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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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Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
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Ethics are more important than laws.
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Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
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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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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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Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, 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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Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good it does.
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I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
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The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.
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