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So much better to travel than to arrive. — Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry. — Steven Spielberg

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

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. — Charles II Of England

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

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

it ain't as hard as picking cotton — 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

Death is not too great a price for a life fully lived. — Willi Unsoeld

Jazz is democracy in music. — Wynton Marsalis

We are the yearning creatures of this planet. — Robert Olen Butler

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. — Billy Bragg

If Jesus had known that his image would end up on Justin Bieber's calf, he would've never started Christianity. — Natasha Leggero

The soul can recall what the mind forgets. — M.J. Rose

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. — Ann Patchett

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

A dog has the soul of a philosopher. — Plato

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice. — Kris Vallotton

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. — Wynton Marsalis

What I am
is tired of jam. — Russell Hoban

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

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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