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The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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Don't bullshit' just play.
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I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.
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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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A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
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Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
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You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.
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Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
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The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
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So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.
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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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Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
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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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Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good it does.
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But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.
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We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
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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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The blues is always there. It's going to be hard out here, but it's all right. It's all right, and that's what the blues teaches you. You got to roll with the punches and find your equilibrium.
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