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" Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. "
Wynton Marsalis
Face
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You
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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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People
Responsibility
Power
" 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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" Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. "
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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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Education
Road
" What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. "
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Head
Imagination
Understanding
" Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. "
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Figures
Jazz
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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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School
High School
Great
" The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States. "
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History
New
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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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Age
Body
Experience
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Rock
Song
Think
" 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
Self-Esteem
Grow Up
Grow
" 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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Look
Love
Me
" I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. "
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Sound
Saying
People
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Impossible
I Am
Man
" 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. "
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Easy
Time
People
" When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year. "
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More
Year
Jazz
" The bandstand is a sacred place. "
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Bandstand
Place
Sacred
" 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
Go
" 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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Music
Opinions
Strong
" 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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Head
Tradition
Battle
" You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. "
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Team
Push
People
" The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm. "
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Music
Rhythm
Section
" I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers. "
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Watch
Never
TV
" There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs. "
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People
Step
Risk
" Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue. "
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Morning
Problems
Wake Up
" Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. "
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Maybe
Technological
Human
" I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time. "
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Father
Time
Talking
" Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors. "
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Turn
Neighbors
Even
" 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
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