Wynton Marsalis Quotes

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ...

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

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you ...

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction li...

I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be bet...

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independe...

The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick t...

Jazz is democracy in music.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study...

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

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the d...

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

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them ...

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that co...