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Wynton Marsalis Quotes

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.

Wynton Marsalis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Father Time Band Old First Years

You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don't quite have their game face on when the time comes. It's always a pretty costly mistake.

Melvin Van Peebles

Time Mistake People Game Face Doing

Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.

Work Responsibility People Long Poor

I've got a personal trainer, and I train three times a week.

Week Train Three Personal Trainer

Motherhood is such an evolving journey.

Solange Knowles

Journey Motherhood Evolving

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne

Children Play Games Playing Seen

People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.

Mother Time Sleep People Me Better

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Louis D. Brandeis

Words Logic Should Yield Realities

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

Look Back Say More Always Been

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Music Name Make Just Other Types

It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.

Time People Wait Better You Go

I'm hoping that maybe I'll start getting a reputation for being a guy who can be pretty versatile. That's the challenge and the fun of being an actor. I love getting to play and do different things.

Love Challenge Fun Start Reputation

I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.

Age Death Sadness Despair AIDS Came

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