Wynton Marsalis Quotes - Page 7

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• I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

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  Attitude, Philosophy, Writing

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• Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

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  Fighting, Player, Squares

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• There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

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  Thinking, Wish, Division

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• It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

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  New Orleans, People, Democracy

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• Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

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  Stars, The End Of The Day, Trying

  "Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Messenger". Interview with Eugene Holley, Jr., www.ebony.com. September 4, 2012.

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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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  Machines, Popularity, Richness

  "Wynton Marsalis Toots His Own Horn". Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, www.ebony.com. October 8, 2013.

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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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  Art, Together, Jazz

  "Third Screen: An Interview with Wynton Marsalis". Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

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  Different, Emotion, Cliche

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• When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.

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  Brother, Daddy, People

  "A life in music: Wynton Marsalis". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

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  Music, Sound, Jazz

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• Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.

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  Hurt, Swings, Feet

  Wynton Marsalis, Carl Vigeland (2002). “Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life”, p.72, Da Capo Press

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• This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

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  Play, Want, Jazz

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• 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?'

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  Father, School, Son

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• Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

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  Class, Play, Feelings

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• Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

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  Confidence, Class, Long

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• Ethics are more important than laws.

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  Law, Important, Ethics

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• It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

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  Kings, Drs, Way

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• The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

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  Marine, Hymns, Firsts

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• The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.

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  New Orleans, Important, United States

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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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  Melting, Want, Melting Pot

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price that was paid to contribute to that, that we just have not gotten that together. I will do all that I can to get in front of our kids, to try to teach them, but at a certain point the people have to want it and come towards it.

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  Art, Kids, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.

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  Mother, Children, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

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  Art, Math, Ideas

  "A life in music: Wynton Marsalis". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2009.

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• He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him.

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  Song, Art, Night

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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.

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  New York, Play, Firsts

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

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