Wynton Marsalis Quotes - Page 2

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• I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

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  Respect, Dresses, Way

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• Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

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  Risk, Musical, Benefits

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• Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

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  Pain, Struggle, Joy

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• You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.

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  Real, People, Ignorant

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• I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

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  Growing Up, Self Esteem, New Orleans

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• Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

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  Cocky, Player, Jazz

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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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  Discipline, Want, Privilege

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• The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

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  Giving, Soul, Resilience

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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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  Ignorance, Greatness, Jazz

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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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  Musician, Gabriel, Lasts

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• Don't bullshit' just play.

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  Play, Bullshit, Jazz

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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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  Music, Vocabulary, Choices

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• Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

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  Men, Competition, Faces

  Interview with Steve LeVeille, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

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  Music, Jazz, Moments

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• This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

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  Carpe Diem, People, Vibrations

  Wynton Marsalis, Carl Vigeland (2002). “Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• Jazz is democracy in music.

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  Inspirational, Life, Democracy

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• When you study our greatest artists, you will find that they give us a key to understand how to deal with each other, and that our bloodlines are intertwined. It's not hyphenated America. That there is an America, and it is expressed in those arts. It gives us a key to figure out how to negotiate with each other, and it tells us actually who we are.

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  Art, America, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge."

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  Player, Judging, Balance

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

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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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  People, Sound, Gumbo

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• Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

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  Giving, Identity, Essentials

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• Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

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  Swings, Feelings, Balance

  "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.

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• What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.

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  And Love, Love And Respect, Veneration

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• The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

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  School, Kids, Play

  "Branford Marsalis On Sensitive Musicians And The First Family Of Jazz". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 11, 2012.

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• Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

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  Song, Pain, Struggle

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• When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

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  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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