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

Wynton Marsalis

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" 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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" 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 generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot. "

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" When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?' "

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" Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance. "

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" The bandstand is a sacred place. "

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" Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. "

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

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" I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America. "

Wynton Marsalis

" I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

Wynton Marsalis

" 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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" When people dress well, they play well. "

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

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" Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. "

Wynton Marsalis

" 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. "

Wynton Marsalis

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

Wynton Marsalis

" 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. "

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" Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. "

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" 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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" The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did. "

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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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