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Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.
— Wynton Marsalis
I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
— Wynton Marsalis
We all played bad before we played good.
— Branford Marsalis
If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
— Branford Marsalis
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
Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
— Wynton Marsalis
This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
— Wynton Marsalis
What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
— Wynton Marsalis
The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
— Wynton Marsalis
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
— Branford Marsalis
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
— Branford Marsalis
I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.
— Wynton 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
My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
— Wynton Marsalis
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
— Branford Marsalis
New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.
— Wynton Marsalis
What is deeper than respect and love? That's what we felt: veneration.
— Wynton Marsalis
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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
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
— Wynton Marsalis
Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing.
— Wynton Marsalis
There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.
— Branford Marsalis
Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
— Wynton Marsalis
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
— Wynton Marsalis
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
— Wynton Marsalis
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
— Wynton Marsalis
There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.
— Wynton Marsalis
So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.
— Wynton Marsalis
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[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.
— Randy Sandke
I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.
— Wynton Marsalis
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.
— Wynton Marsalis
You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
— Wynton Marsalis
You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.
— Branford Marsalis
I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.
— Branford Marsalis
The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
— Wynton Marsalis
A musician's whole life is to listen.
— Wynton Marsalis
I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
— Wynton Marsalis
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
— Wynton Marsalis
We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.
— Wynton Marsalis
When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't.
— Wynton Marsalis
I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.
— Christian Scott
I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
— Wynton Marsalis
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
— Wynton Marsalis
it ain't as hard as picking cotton
— Wynton Marsalis
When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.
— Wynton Marsalis
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
— Wynton Marsalis
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
— Wynton Marsalis
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
— Branford Marsalis
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
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
Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
— Wynton Marsalis
Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.
— Wynton Marsalis
I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.
— Wynton Marsalis
Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.
— Branford Marsalis
It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
— Branford Marsalis
The bandstand is a sacred place.
— Wynton Marsalis
Jazz music is the power of now.
— Wynton Marsalis
When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
— Wynton Marsalis
If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.
— Wynton Marsalis
This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
— 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
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
— Branford Marsalis
I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.
— Wynton Marsalis
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
— Wynton Marsalis
You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.
— Branford Marsalis
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
— 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 I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
— Branford Marsalis
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
— Wynton Marsalis
Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.
— Wynton Marsalis
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
— Wynton Marsalis
We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.
— Branford Marsalis
The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
— Wynton Marsalis
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
— Wynton Marsalis
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
— Wynton Marsalis
Ethics are more important than laws.
— Wynton Marsalis
If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
— Wynton Marsalis
Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
— Wynton Marsalis
The best way to be, is to do.
— Wynton Marsalis
I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.
— Wynton Marsalis
As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.
— Bruce Springsteen
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
— Branford Marsalis
Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
— Wynton Marsalis
Those who play for applause ... Tha t's all they get.
— Wynton Marsalis
The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play?
— Wynton Marsalis
At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.
— Ellis Marsalis Jr.
Thank the good Lord for a job.
— Wynton Marsalis
Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.
— Wynton Marsalis
Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.
— Wynton Marsalis
