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Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.

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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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Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
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What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.
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Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
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This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.
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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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There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.
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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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Don't bullshit' just play.
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Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.
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I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.
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My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.
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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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The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
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The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.
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We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
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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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Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.
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