American - Musician | October 18, 1961 -
I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
Wynton Marsalis
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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
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You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
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Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
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I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
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I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
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I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
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My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
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I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
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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.
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This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
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