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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 th...

Wynton Marsalis

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 th...

Tags: love, ketchup, philosophy

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.

Wynton Marsalis

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.

Tags: change, together, men

About Author
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year.

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

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.

Tags: education, discipline, studying, want

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

Wynton Marsalis

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

Tags: education, future, confidence, road

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Wynton Marsalis

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Tags: faith

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

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.

Tags: freedom, wish, think, you

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

Wynton Marsalis

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

Tags: imagination, music, understanding, head

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 the...

Wynton Marsalis

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 the...

Tags: money, time

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

Wynton Marsalis

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

Tags: respect

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.

Tags: jazz, music

It ain't as hard as picking cotton

Wynton Marsalis

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

Tags: african, american, bebop, family, jazz, life, trumpeter

Jazz is democracy in music.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is democracy in music.

Tags: artistic, patriotism, social commentary

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

Wynton Marsalis

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

Tags: father, up, still

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

Wynton Marsalis

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

Tags: american, jazz, blues

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...

Wynton Marsalis

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...

Tags: myself, problems, mind