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Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

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
Quantitative
Commercialism
Assessment
Whatsoever
Absolutely
Relationship
Quality
Thing

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Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.
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