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Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
Bandleader
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Jazz Musician
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
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I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
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There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
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My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.
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Don't bullshit' just play.
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I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.
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The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
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Thank the good Lord for a job.
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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.
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Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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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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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.
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