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" I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot. "
Wynton Marsalis
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" I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. "
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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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" My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on. "
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" The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States. "
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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 best way to be, is to do. "
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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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" Ethics are more important than laws. "
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" The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. "
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" I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. "
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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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" Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. "
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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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" 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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" Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that. "
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" When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't. "
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" 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?' "
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" Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. "
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" 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. "
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" My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge. "
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" Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. "
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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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