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Jazz Marsalis Quotes & Sayings

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Trying to understand people is like interpreting dreams. — GEORGEOS C. AWGERINOS

Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself. — Max Von Sydow

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music. — Wynton Marsalis

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

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. — Branford Marsalis

Well tarnation you're a meanie pants aren't you?" ~Miss Mary~ — Lucian Bane

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic. — Branford Marsalis

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing. — Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz. — Jon Pareles

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense. — Branford Marsalis

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people. — Wynton Marsalis

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself. — Branford Marsalis

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel. — Wynton Marsalis

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. — Wynton Marsalis

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year. — Wynton Marsalis

Tits and ass and class - that's how you land a man with money, Tamara Anne. You've got two and can fake the last one. — Avery Flynn

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore. — Branford Marsalis

Jazz is democracy in music. — Wynton Marsalis

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. — Wynton Marsalis

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out. — Lester Bowie

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. — Branford Marsalis

You can't see the glory of life if you haven't seen the dark side of life. — Bessel Van Der Kolk

Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result. — Jean Hugard

it ain't as hard as picking cotton — Wynton Marsalis

Your not God, Steldor. — Cayla Kluver

A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more. — P.G. Wodehouse

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. — Wynton Marsalis

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about. — Wynton Marsalis

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician — Wynton Marsalis

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual. — Ellis Marsalis Jr.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. — Wynton Marsalis

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. — Wynton Marsalis

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed. — Wynton Marsalis

Don't bullshit' just play. — Wynton Marsalis

Don't look at what has been achieved, look at what needs to be achieved — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Jazz music is the power of now. — Wynton Marsalis

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. — Wynton Marsalis

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it. — Wynton Marsalis

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate. — Taylor Swift