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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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The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, This is for me.
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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
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We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
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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.
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It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is The Judge.
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I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.
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The bandstand is a sacred place.
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Thank the good Lord for a job.
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Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
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The blues is always there. It's going to be hard out here, but it's all right. It's all right, and that's what the blues teaches you. You got to roll with the punches and find your equilibrium.
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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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It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
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Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.
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