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" Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk. "

Wynton Marsalis

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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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" 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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" 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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" It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another. "

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" I dress up a certain way because I respect the music. "

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" I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do. "

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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians. "

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" Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them. "

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

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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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" Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now. "

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" We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us. "

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

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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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" 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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" I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. "

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" Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music. "

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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. "

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