Wynton Marsalis Quotes

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

Important, Democracy, Young

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Wynton Marsalis

Music, Play, Learn

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
Wynton Marsalis

Human, Progress, Maybe

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
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Together, Brother, Older

Thank the good Lord for a job.
Wynton Marsalis

Good, Job, Lord

The bandstand is a sacred place.
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Place, Sacred, Bandstand

The best way to be, is to do.
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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
Wynton Marsalis

Time, Public, Played

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

Older, Musicians, Head

The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
Wynton Marsalis

History, Important, Point

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
Wynton Marsalis

Everything, Put, Few

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
Wynton Marsalis

Second, Played, Violin

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
Wynton Marsalis

Battle, Playing, Head

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

Perfect, Ready, King

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
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Education, Future, Long

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
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Father, Greater, Looked

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

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?
Wynton Marsalis

Cannot, Reason, Nation

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
Wynton Marsalis

Change, Faith, Lose

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'
Wynton Marsalis

Great, School, Father

When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't.
Wynton Marsalis

Play, Treat, Everybody

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
Wynton Marsalis

Face, Playing, Whenever

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Nationality: American

Born: October 18, 1961

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