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I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music.
Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
Bandleader
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Jazz Musician
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
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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 always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
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I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
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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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Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
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People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
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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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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.
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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 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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It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.
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Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.
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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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Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.
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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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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 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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