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When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play but I couldn't.
Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
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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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Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.
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Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.
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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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It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.
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The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
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Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.
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