Wynton Marsalis Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Real, New Orleans

• Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Inspiring, Country, Vocabulary

• The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

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  Country, Marijuana, Generations

• Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The era of Reconstruction and then the subsequent dismantling of Reconstruction sent us in a tailspin. Then we had the Civil Rights movement. Now we have our first non-white president. We have a pattern of moving apart and then coming back together throughout the history of this country. Each time, we come closer.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Moving, Rights

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

• Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.

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  Country, Art, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.

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  Country, Jobs, Book

• The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Running, Country, New Orleans

  "Marsalis: Racism and greed put blues at the back of the bus". Interview, edition.cnn.com. October 24, 2009.

• I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is not one big mass of people with a proverbial beer in its hand, keeping the country down. That is not my experience of it and I don't labor under that misconception. And we have a long tradition of coming together through music in our country.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Beer, Hands

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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