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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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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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Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
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When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.
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A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
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I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.
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There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
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If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.
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Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.
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I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.
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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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I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
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I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.
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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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The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.
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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
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One thing about excellence, it&Mac226s an exclusive club. And it&Mac226s only for those who really want to pay dues to the s--. My daddy told me when I was a boy: The only way you can be different from other people is to do some s-- they don't want to do.
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Jazz music celebrates life! Human life the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!
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The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
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Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.
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Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
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