American - Musician | October 18, 1961 -
I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.
Wynton Marsalis
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A musician's whole life is to listen.
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Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
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Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.
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I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.
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My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.
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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 clarity on the issue.
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The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
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My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.
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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.
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I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.
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I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.
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