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.
Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get. - Wynton Marsalis
Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.
- Wynton Marsalis
It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a … - Wynton Marsalis
It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a …
If you want to be different, do something different. - Wynton Marsalis
If you want to be different, do something different.
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. - Wynton Marsalis
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is t… - Wynton Marsalis
The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is t…
If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying. - Wynton Marsalis
If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life,… - Wynton Marsalis
How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life,…
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions t… - Wynton Marsalis
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions t…
Let the critics criticize and let the doers do. - Wynton Marsalis
Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
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