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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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Watch
Never
TV
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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. "
Wynton Marsalis
You
Fun
Criticism
" When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't. "
Wynton Marsalis
Like
Treat
Play
" My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians. "
Wynton Marsalis
Myself
Brother
Together
" A musician's whole life is to listen. "
Wynton Marsalis
Life
Listen
Musician
" When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year. "
Wynton Marsalis
More
Year
Jazz
" When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? "
Wynton Marsalis
Our
Ability
Lose
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
People
Responsibility
Power
" When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that. "
Wynton Marsalis
Point Of View
View
You
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Us
Parents
Mother
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Never
Lips
Me
" I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play. "
Wynton Marsalis
Believe
You
Opportunity
" 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
Nation
World
Reason
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Time
Father
Band
" The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard. "
Wynton Marsalis
Country
Generation
Young
" The best way to be, is to do. "
Wynton Marsalis
Way
Best Way
Best
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
You
People
Music
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
You
Say
Try
" 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
Kind
Thought
" I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review. "
Wynton Marsalis
Friends
Will
Who
" The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel. "
Wynton Marsalis
Country
Blues
American
" The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States. "
Wynton Marsalis
History
New
New Orleans
" Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. "
Wynton Marsalis
Jazz
Art
Way
" When people dress well, they play well. "
Wynton Marsalis
Dress
People
Play
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Easy
Time
People
" Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. "
Wynton Marsalis
Future
Education
Road
" There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. "
Wynton Marsalis
Jazz
Democracy
Spirit
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Music
Play
Worry
" The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that. "
Wynton Marsalis
Hip-Hop
Band
High
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Self-Esteem
Grow Up
Grow
" I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot. "
Wynton Marsalis
Doing
Lot
Up