Wynton Marsalis Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

  Wynton Marsalis

  Father, School, Son

• I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Father, Years, Band

• We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Father, Stills, Greater

  "Professor of Swing". Academy of Achievment Interview, www.achievement.org. January 8, 1991.

• 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.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mother, Father, Book

• My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that experience of how to communicate with younger people, put that hand on them and give them that old-school feeling, the maturity and adult, a lot of our kids just need the feeling of that love, and that's the frame of reference that I teach from and that's the frame of reference that all of our musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Teacher, Father, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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