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The best way to be, is to do.

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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Best
Way

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The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.
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There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.
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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
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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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Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
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Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
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Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.
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I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
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Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
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In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others.
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Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
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We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
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The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.
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I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
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The bandstand is a sacred place.
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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
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My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.
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Don't bullshit' just play.
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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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