Wynton Marsalis Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mean, Opposites, Play

• I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Eye, Ideas, Democracy

• Jazz is democracy in music.

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  Inspirational, Life, Democracy

• We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

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  Responsibility, Rights, Democracy

• The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.

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  Integrity, Black, Democracy

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

• There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Democracy, Spirit, Jazz

• It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

  Wynton Marsalis

  New Orleans, People, Democracy

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