Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. "
Wynton Marsalis
Team
Push
People
Related Quotes:
" I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. "
Wynton Marsalis
Discipline
Habit
Education
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Progress
World
Depression
" What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. "
Wynton Marsalis
Head
Imagination
Understanding
" 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
" Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk. "
Wynton Marsalis
Reap
Act
Rest
" Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. "
Wynton Marsalis
Face
Competition
You
" There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. "
Wynton Marsalis
One Thing
Second
Violin
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
People
Me
Go
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
American
Jazz
Music
" Thank the good Lord for a job. "
Wynton Marsalis
Lord
Good
Thank
" The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States. "
Wynton Marsalis
History
New
New Orleans
" I dress up a certain way because I respect the music. "
Wynton Marsalis
Music
Respect
Up
" 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
" Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. "
Wynton Marsalis
Style
Color
Eye
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Us
Parents
Mother
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Music
Opinions
Strong
" My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness. "
Wynton Marsalis
Start
You
Flexibility
" There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. "
Wynton Marsalis
Jazz
Democracy
Spirit
" I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot. "
Wynton Marsalis
Doing
Lot
Up
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Generation
America
World
" When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? "
Wynton Marsalis
Our
Ability
Lose
" Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. "
Wynton Marsalis
Woman
Man
Struggle
" We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us. "
Wynton Marsalis
Father
Up
Still
" I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play. "
Wynton Marsalis
Believe
You
Opportunity
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Head
Tradition
Battle
" We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. "
Wynton Marsalis
Hear
Responsibility
Democracy
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Yourself
Swing
How
" 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. "
Wynton Marsalis
Look
Love
Me
" The best way to be, is to do. "
Wynton Marsalis
Way
Best Way
Best
" Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. "
Wynton Marsalis
Jazz
Art
Way