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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: 62
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Jazz Musician
Trumpeter
New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
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Music
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People
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I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
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Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.
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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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The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
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If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.
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My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
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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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My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.
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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
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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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What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.
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I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.
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This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.
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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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There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.
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