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Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.

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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And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
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It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is The Judge.
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We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.
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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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Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
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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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No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.
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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 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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Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.
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Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
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I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
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Thank the good Lord for a job.
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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 heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
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We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
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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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Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are.
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It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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