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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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Us
Parents
Mother
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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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" 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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" 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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End Of The Day
End
" The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm. "
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Music
Rhythm
Section
" 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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Discipline
Habit
Education
" When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong. "
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People
Me
Go
" Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now. "
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Now
Later
" 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
Pain
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Look
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Me
" Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors. "
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Turn
Neighbors
Even
" When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that. "
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Point Of View
View
You
" I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. "
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Sound
Saying
People
" My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians. "
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Myself
Brother
Together
" Ethics are more important than laws. "
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More
Than
Laws
" Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid. "
Wynton Marsalis
Balance
You
Way
" There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing. "
Wynton Marsalis
Head
Tradition
Battle
" 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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" I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America. "
Wynton Marsalis
You
Afraid
America
" 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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You
People
Music
" Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk. "
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Reap
Act
Rest
" The bandstand is a sacred place. "
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Bandstand
Place
Sacred
" I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. "
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Drums
Bad
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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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Never
Lips
Me
" 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. "
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Country
Blues
American
" 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
" My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge. "
Wynton Marsalis
Finish
Edge
Doing
" There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation. "
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Freedom
You
Spirit
" 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
" There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science. "
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Help
Evidence
Mind
" Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. "
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Maybe
Technological
Human