Wynton Marsalis Quotes - Page 6

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• I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

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  Music, Listening, Made

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• What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

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  New Orleans, Citizens, World

  "New Orleans Contemplates Its Racial Future". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 17, 2006.

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• I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

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  Football, Brother, Watches

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• I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?

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  Spiritual, Inheritance, Fundamentals

  "Steve LeVeille interviews Wynton Marsalis". Interview on WBZ Radio, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

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  Father, Years, Band

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• I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay.

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  New York, Guy, Gigs

  "A life in music: Wynton Marsalis". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

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  Strong, Others Opinions, Giving

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• I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.

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  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• One thing about excellence, it&Mac226;s an exclusive club. And it&Mac226;s only for those who really want to pay dues to the s--. My daddy told me when I was a boy: The only way you can be different from other people is to do some s-- they don't want to do.

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  Boys, Daddy, People

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• I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

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  Running, Mean, Always Trying

  "Wynton Marsalis gives spirited take on jazz with 'Abyssinian Mass'". Interview with Jeremy D. Goodwin, www.bostonglobe.com. October 24, 2013.

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• I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like hoe-downs, fiddle songs, and the art of improvisation, and the New Orleans funeral tradition, and call-and-response church singing, and the fact that the blues run through everything. And in our relationship to European music, in that we don't have to imitate it, it's a part of us, inseparable.

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  Running, Song, Art

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• In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

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  Lincoln Center, Play, Diversity

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• 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.

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  New York, Philosophical, Talking

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

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• Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

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  Hate, Worry, Trying

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• My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

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  Brother, Our Generation, America

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• I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

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  Play, Piano, Tubas

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

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  Imagination, Understanding, My Imagination

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• And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

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  People, Sound, Miles

  "Steve LeVeille interviews Wynton Marsalis". Interview on WBZ Radio, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

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  People, Musician, Lucky

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• Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

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  Jazz, Figures, Phenomenal

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• The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

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  Cutting, Musician, Expected

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

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  Democracy, Spirit, Jazz

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• This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

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  Kings, Opportunity, New Orleans

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• We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

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  Father, Stills, Greater

  "Professor of Swing". Academy of Achievment Interview, www.achievement.org. January 8, 1991.

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• I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

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  Mother, Father, Book

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