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" Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. "

Wynton Marsalis

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

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" I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. "

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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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" You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. "

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" A musician's whole life is to listen. "

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" What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect. "

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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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" I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America. "

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" Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. "

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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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" I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there. "

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" There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires. "

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" The best way to be, is to do. "

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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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" Thank the good Lord for a job. "

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

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

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" As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also. "

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" My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on jazz. "

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" I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn't bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It's not serious. "

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" Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition. "

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

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