54 Wynton Marsalis Quotes for You to Enjoy

Wynton Marsalis

American Musician

Born: Oct 18, 1961

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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

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Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art. Wynton Marsalis

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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

Music Broken Man Struggle Woman Heart Joy Pain Everything Statements Out About Having Absolute Songs Most Heart Broken Affirmation Blues Social Your Elegance Universal

Ethics are more important than laws. Wynton Marsalis

Ethics Important Laws More Than

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

Democracy Rights Responsibility About Participation Major Always Hear

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now. Wynton Marsalis

You Wish Else Later Someone Now

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. Wynton Marsalis

You People Push Opponents Team Need

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation. Wynton Marsalis

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. Wynton Marsalis

Good History Together National Jazz Our Bad Mutual Only Through Good Times Shared Come Know Period Understood Truly Times Arts The History Of Us Aspirations Lets

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

Love Attitude Me Musical Philosophy Some About Give Give Me Oblique Writes Put Abstract Abstraction Like Look Got References Trumpet Person Just Mayonnaise Really Who Things Sauce Ketchup

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

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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. Wynton Marsalis

Democracy Eyes Corruption Generation Closed Complacency Enrich Our Entered No Idea My Generation Absolutely Dropped Idea Period Ball Did Public

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

Education Future Confidence Generation Long Down Uncertain Through Road Marches

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

You Song Guitar Somebody Think Neglect Everything Possible Solo Rock Go Rock-N-Roll Hear Roll Blues Playing

If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it. Wynton Marsalis

You Culture Pain About Smiling Lot American American Culture Serious

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. Wynton Marsalis

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

Me Will Critique Review Friends Than Any Much Who Harder

A musician's whole life is to listen. Wynton Marsalis

Life Musician Listen Whole

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect. Wynton Marsalis

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