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Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

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
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Whenever
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We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's voice, and you'll notice that song in their voice.
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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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Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
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When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.
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We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and how to speak to one another, that our kids don't know that achievement, there's no way in the world that could be good for us.
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If you want to be different, do something different.
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What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.
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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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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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Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
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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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Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.
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Jazz music is the power of now.
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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 soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
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To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz musicians that at this point the entirety of the American tradition is your heritage, and you need to know it.
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I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.
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When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.
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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
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My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
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