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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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Generation
America
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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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" When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that. "
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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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" Thank the good Lord for a job. "
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Thank
" 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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History
Bad
" I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. "
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Bad
Play
" I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review. "
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Will
Who
" 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. "
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Step
Risk
" 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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Watch
Never
TV
" 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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Like
Treat
Play
" 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. "
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Worry
" 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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Identity
Love
Run
" 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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Country
Generation
Young
" I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it. "
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Somebody
Feel
Like
" If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it. "
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You
Culture
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" 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
" Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. "
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Style
Color
Eye
" I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot. "
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Doing
Lot
Up
" 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
" When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? "
Wynton Marsalis
Our
Ability
Lose
" 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 think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues. "
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Rock
Song
Think
" The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm. "
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Music
Rhythm
Section
" 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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Easy
Time
People
" The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves. "
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Calm
You
Remember
" 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. "
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Hip-Hop
Band
High
" 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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Woman
Man
Struggle
" Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk. "
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Reap
Act
Rest
" 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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Progress
World
Depression
" Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. "
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Figures
Jazz
Phenomenal