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When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

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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Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
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You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
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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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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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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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Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
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The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
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Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
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I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
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Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.
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The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
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