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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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We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.
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Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
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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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We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
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Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
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But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.
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What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.
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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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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
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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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So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.
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I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.
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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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The bandstand is a sacred place.
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Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing.
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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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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
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Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.
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Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.
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