Wynton Marsalis Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Mean, Understanding

  Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.15, Random House

• What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Imagination, Understanding, My Imagination

• 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.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Jobs, Book

• The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mother, Children, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Political, Understanding, Failing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

  Wynton Marsalis

  New York, Philosophical, Talking

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

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