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Wynton Marsalis Quotes

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

Wynton Marsalis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 18, 1961

Topics

Music New York People Generation New

I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.

Melissa Ordway

Crazy Growing Up Start Professional

Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.

Max Joseph

Me Drive Book Know Want Never

The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

Jean-Luc Godard

Music People Airplane Present More

You really need to be on top of what you own, and you've got to be on top of your record-keeping. Imagine one day if a major bank is taken down and the records are gone.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Day You Down One Day Top Need

With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.

Mike Epps

Men Waiting Ice House Security Old

Celador always ask me to do their shows, and I turned down 'Millionaire.' I couldn't have done it as well as Chris Tarrant, or at least I couldn't have done it any better.

Jasper Carrott

Me Better Down Done Ask Always

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

Don Henley

Me Think Play Know First Pretty

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

Education Training Important Most

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Imagination Differences Reason Things

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

Wisdom Age Fool School Better Than

When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.

Lindsay Mendez

Women Great Yourself Ugly People

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Hugo Weaving

Me Game Acting Playing Extension