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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

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
Understanding
Music
Really
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Head
Imagination

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Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
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What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.
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There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.
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Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.
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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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The bandstand is a sacred place.
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The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
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The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.
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My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
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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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It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.
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Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
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I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.
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Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.
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Ethics are more important than laws.
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Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
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Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
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