Wynton Marsalis Quotes About Singing

Quotes about: Singing

• I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like hoe-downs, fiddle songs, and the art of improvisation, and the New Orleans funeral tradition, and call-and-response church singing, and the fact that the blues run through everything. And in our relationship to European music, in that we don't have to imitate it, it's a part of us, inseparable.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Running, Song, Art

• Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Singing, Levels

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

• 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.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Spiritual, Mean, People

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

• Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not tone-deaf, because if you were tone-deaf you would speak like that. But you're 'Oh, I'm tone-deaf.' You already sang a song to me."

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Singing, Tone

  Source: www.pbs.org

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