Wynton Marsalis Jazz Quotes
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Wynton Marsalis Jazz Quotes & Sayings
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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
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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
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
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
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
Don't bullshit' just play.
— Wynton Marsalis
Jazz music is the power of now.
— Wynton Marsalis
