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The bandstand is a sacred place.

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
Jazz
Sacred
Place
Bandstand

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The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.
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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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Don't bullshit' just play.
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There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
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Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.
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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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When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
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No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.
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The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
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Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
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What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
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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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Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
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What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.
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I remember when I wrote a piece, Blood on the Fields, it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout.
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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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This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
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