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The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.

Wynton Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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New Orleans
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Wynton Learson Marsalis
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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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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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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
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Jazz music celebrates life! Human life the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!
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When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play but I couldn't.
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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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I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.
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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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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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The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
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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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Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.
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Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
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The bandstand is a sacred place.
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I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
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There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.
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Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
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