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Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.

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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Clarity
Humility
Learning
Truth
Doorway
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I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.
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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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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
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We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
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This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
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When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.
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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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For Black people, we're one of the only groups of people that for some reason to express love of yourself, in some ways, is misconstrued as a dislike for someone else.
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Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
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When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
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Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
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Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others
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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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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
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Thank the good Lord for a job.
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The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.
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I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.
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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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