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" When people dress well, they play well. "
Wynton Marsalis
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" A musician's whole life is to listen. "
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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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" In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not. "
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" My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on jazz. "
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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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" 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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" The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. "
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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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" There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. "
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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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" It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another. "
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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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" 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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" There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires. "
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" I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America. "
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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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" 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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" 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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