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Wynton Marsalis

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I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.
CHRISTIAN SCOTT I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
JOE DIMAGGIO We are already beginning to see that played out with the fund-raisers that are being organized by Wy...
JACK STEWART I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
JOE DIMAGGIO Everything happens for a reason. I thank the Lord my family is safe; just really thank the Lord.
JOSH KING As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, bu...
JAN VOGLER There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there...
WYNTON MARSALIS it ain't as hard as picking cotton
WYNTON MARSALIS Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute eleganc...
WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybo...
WYNTON MARSALIS Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independe...
WYNTON MARSALIS I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That does...
WYNTON MARSALIS The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people a...
WYNTON MARSALIS We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
WYNTON MARSALIS I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
WYNTON MARSALIS I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I go...
WYNTON MARSALIS The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've co...
WYNTON MARSALIS The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ...
WYNTON MARSALIS I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study...
WYNTON MARSALIS Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form th...
WYNTON MARSALIS My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world ...
WYNTON MARSALIS What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be...
WYNTON MARSALIS I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We en...
WYNTON MARSALIS There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you ...
WYNTON MARSALIS Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with ...
WYNTON MARSALIS Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing...
WYNTON MARSALIS My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, y...
WYNTON MARSALIS It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
WYNTON MARSALIS I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
WYNTON MARSALIS There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can bel...
WYNTON MARSALIS Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other...
WYNTON MARSALIS Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress...
WYNTON MARSALIS Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classi...
WYNTON MARSALIS My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ...
WYNTON MARSALIS As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to...
WYNTON MARSALIS The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
WYNTON MARSALIS The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs....
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.
WYNTON MARSALIS The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a youn...
WYNTON MARSALIS I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ...
WYNTON MARSALIS In Vienna every place Beethoven looked at, it's marked by something.
WYNTON MARSALIS When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known ...
WYNTON MARSALIS Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an ar...
WYNTON MARSALIS We're going to kill ourselves this week to bring the spirit of jazz (back to New Orleans).
WYNTON MARSALIS I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Berns...
WYNTON MARSALIS The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember mo...
WYNTON MARSALIS This girl, about 14, came to see me and I said, 'What are you doing out so late?'
WYNTON MARSALIS To put on your suit and play jazz music, ... knowing that many people in your audience have never ex...
WYNTON MARSALIS We have a lot that we've offered this country. It's our art form. It's America's art form.
WYNTON MARSALIS We want to concentrate on rebirth and rebuilding.
WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz is democracy in music.
WYNTON MARSALIS I've been told my house was fine - until the levee broke, ... That's when I got 2 or 3 feet of water...
WYNTON MARSALIS I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Ma...
WYNTON MARSALIS I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opp...
WYNTON MARSALIS It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's...
WYNTON MARSALIS The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
WYNTON MARSALIS My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professio...
WYNTON MARSALIS Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinen...
WYNTON MARSALIS I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the...
WYNTON MARSALIS Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into ...
WYNTON MARSALIS I told her, 'I'll be there -- if you wake me up! Just let the phone ring a lot.'
WYNTON MARSALIS My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He ...
WYNTON MARSALIS Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
WYNTON MARSALIS I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong ...
WYNTON MARSALIS Lord, thank you for the courage to live life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Lord, thank You for the joys of the Christmas season. Thank You for treasured recollections. Thank Y...
GUIDEPOSTS I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would...
TROMBONE SHORTY I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Lord, I thank you for getting us out of here.
LESCHIA RADFORD Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN Thank God for the excessively successful job interview.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
DOLLY PARTON The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
JOSH BILLINGS The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
JOSH BILLINGS I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
JIM VALVANO I don't do it for a pat on the back. But every now and then someone sends a card and says, 'Thank yo...
DOUG BARFIELD It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN In acquiring a job, I have experienced slavery. Thank GOD for choices. Seriously.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
JOSH BILLINGS Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing da...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE He got in the wall. Thank the Lord I missed it.
DAVID REUTIMANN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI If you rejoice in the Lord and thank Him for new opportunities, then you will be successful in your ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS 'For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice ...
E. Y. HARBURG Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef!"
"As my lord says," Nerim murmured. "M...
ROBERT JORDAN Bo opened up a lot of doors for a lot of people. I think he did the show a lot of good by coming on....
BUCKY COVINGTON The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21
BIBLE All we have to say is thank you Lord! When you are grateful for what He's done for you, He lifts you...
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU I just thank the Lord because death did not come, ... The living things were spared.
RALPH MOORE It was just sitting perfect, I pushed into it and it was like a razor blade. The green beans weren't...
JAKE PEAVY I thank the Lord for the air she got. God is alive. He looks after all of us. You just have to have ...
DON ABELL We are not perfect. None of us is. I apologize for that flaw. I thank the governor for giving me a j...
ZULIMA FARBER My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote...
BARACK OBAMA I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the...
GLORIA ARROYO The Lord gives strength for every good deeds.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There were guns on the coffee table. Like, a lot of them, broken out on cloths, being cleaned, leane...
JIM BUTCHER O Lord I thank Thee for this wonderful body which by itself is a miracle.
Thank you for this wo...
LATIKA TEOTIA

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WYNTON MARSALIS There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can bel...
WYNTON MARSALIS Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other...
WYNTON MARSALIS Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress...
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WYNTON MARSALIS My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ...
WYNTON MARSALIS As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to...
WYNTON MARSALIS The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
WYNTON MARSALIS The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs....
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.
WYNTON MARSALIS The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a youn...
WYNTON MARSALIS I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ...
WYNTON MARSALIS In Vienna every place Beethoven looked at, it's marked by something.
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WYNTON MARSALIS We're going to kill ourselves this week to bring the spirit of jazz (back to New Orleans).
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WYNTON MARSALIS The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember mo...
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WYNTON MARSALIS We have a lot that we've offered this country. It's our art form. It's America's art form.
WYNTON MARSALIS We want to concentrate on rebirth and rebuilding.
WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz is democracy in music.
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WYNTON MARSALIS Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinen...
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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 A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
BRANFORD MARSALIS New Orleans is probably the only city in America that has its own culture. There are things you can'...
BRANFORD MARSALIS I think musicians have been the lifeline to this city because it's a tourist town and we don't have ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS We're going to create a fund to have them play concerts or have them record for us. We're talking ab...
BRANFORD MARSALIS [Because of their unique place in the New Orleans sound, brass bands are receiving special attention...
BRANFORD MARSALIS The record industry is changing, and sooner or later we had to face the reality that there's not a l...
BRANFORD MARSALIS Pay attention to me, please.
BRANFORD MARSALIS I hope to find jazz artists not quite ready for prime time,
BRANFORD MARSALIS We are extremely grateful to Dave Matthews Band and the wonderful citizens of Denver for stepping up...
BRANFORD MARSALIS What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular...
BRANFORD MARSALIS It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a p...
BRANFORD MARSALIS When the water is pumped out and the lights are back on, we're definitely going back.
ELLIS MARSALIS It's just so many people. I've been there (the festival) since the beginning.
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