Jazz Marsalis Quotes
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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
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
![Jazz Marsalis Quotes By Wynton Marsalis: The reason why the music [jazz] is important](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jazz-marsalis-quotes-by-wynton-marsalis-1547519.jpg "Jazz Marsalis Quotes By Wynton Marsalis: The reason why the music [jazz] is important")
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
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
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
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