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Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
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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Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.
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The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.
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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.
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Jazz is democracy in music.
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Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.
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Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
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The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.
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Jazz music is the power of now.
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I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
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I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
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When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play but I couldn't.
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It's our job to just do as much as we can to enlighten the people about it and to represent it by playing it with some integrity. That's what I try to do.
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I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.
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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
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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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The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art
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My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something it gives me an added edge.
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There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
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Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
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