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" Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance. "
Wynton Marsalis
Substance
Succeed
Style
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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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" Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. "
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" The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm. "
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" I dress up a certain way because I respect the music. "
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" There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. "
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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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" I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it. "
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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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" I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play. "
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" I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. "
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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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" The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States. "
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New
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" The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody. "
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People
Music
" 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. "
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" I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. "
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Lips
Me
" 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
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" My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music. "
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" I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy. "
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Love
Me
" A musician's whole life is to listen. "
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" The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. "
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" Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. "
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" People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly. "
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