Quote

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

Wynton Marsalis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Jazz Musician
Trumpeter
New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
Headed
Players
Jazz
Player
Hard
Trumpet
Cocky
Trumpets

More quotes by Wynton Marsalis

Image
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others
Wynton Marsalis
Image
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.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
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?
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
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.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Jazz music is the power of now.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Thank the good Lord for a job.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
Wynton Marsalis
Image
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.
Wynton Marsalis
Image
If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.
Wynton Marsalis