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" This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King. "

Wynton Marsalis

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" I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play. "

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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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" I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay. "

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" A musician's whole life is to listen. "

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" Ethics are more important than laws. "

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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. "

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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 bandstand is a sacred place. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. "

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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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" We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. "

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" Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. "

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" When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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" I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. "

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

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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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" 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 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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" What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. "

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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 so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. "

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