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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

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

When people dress well, they play well. — 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

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

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it. — Wynton 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

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians. — Wynton Marsalis

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us. — Wynton 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

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

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

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either. — Randy Sandke

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

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

it ain't as hard as picking cotton — Wynton 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

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

If you want to be different, do something different. — Wynton Marsalis

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. — Wynton Marsalis

I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play. — Wynton Marsalis

The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity. — Wynton Marsalis

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that. — 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

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

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

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

Ethics are more important than laws. — Wynton Marsalis

The bandstand is a sacred place. — Wynton Marsalis

A beat is a moment in the life a groove. — Wynton Marsalis

Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives ... it's the doorway 2 learning. — Wynton Marsalis

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge. — Wynton Marsalis

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do. — Wynton Marsalis

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now. — Wynton Marsalis

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

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. — 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

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

Don't bullshit' just play. — 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

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. — Wynton Marsalis

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

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

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. — Wynton Marsalis

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

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot. — Wynton Marsalis

I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis. — Christian Scott

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. — Wynton Marsalis

The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up. — Wynton 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

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

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did. — 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

When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't. — Wynton Marsalis

We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted. — Wynton Marsalis

I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music. — Wynton Marsalis

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

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

Thank the good Lord for a job. — Wynton Marsalis

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. — Wynton Marsalis