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We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's voice, and you'll notice that song in their voice.

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
People
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Voice
Learn
Language
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Music
Even
Love

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We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
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My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something it gives me an added edge.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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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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We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.
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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
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Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, Oh, I'm tone-deaf. I say, You're not tone-deaf, because if you were tone-deaf you would speak like that. But you're 'Oh, I'm tone-deaf.' You already sang a song to me.
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Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
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When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of education using it at the expense of others. At Jazz at Lincoln Center, we have 22 educational programs. Not just the word but the substance of education is guided by the arts.
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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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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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Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.
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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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Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
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You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.
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