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Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.


Wynton Marsalis

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WYNTON MARSALIS Thank the good Lord for a job.
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WYNTON MARSALIS I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstractio...
WYNTON MARSALIS We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
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WYNTON MARSALIS In Vienna every place Beethoven looked at, it's marked by something.
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WYNTON MARSALIS The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
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WYNTON MARSALIS I told her, 'I'll be there -- if you wake me up! Just let the phone ring a lot.'
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WYNTON MARSALIS Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
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BRANFORD MARSALIS Pay attention to me, please.
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