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" The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm. "
Wynton Marsalis
Music
Rhythm
Section
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" Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art. "
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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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" We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us. "
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Up
Still
" 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. "
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Try
" You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. "
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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. "
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America
World
" I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America. "
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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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" 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? "
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World
Reason
" Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. "
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Future
Education
Road
" 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
" 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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Democracy
Complacency
Corruption
" Ethics are more important than laws. "
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More
Than
Laws
" There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. "
Wynton Marsalis
Jazz
Democracy
Spirit
" 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
" 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
" I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it. "
Wynton Marsalis
Somebody
Feel
Like
" Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. "
Wynton Marsalis
Musicians
Interesting
Conversation
" 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
" 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
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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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Father
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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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Strong
" 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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Love
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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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Think
" Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. "
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Eye
" 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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Jazz
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" The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. "
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First Time
Public
Time
" 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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" 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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You
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