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There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

Wynton Marsalis

American Musician

You had the good-time people right next to a lot of real church people. - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

You had the good-time people right next to a lot of real church people.

Wynton Marsalis

I've been told my house was fine - until the levee broke, ... That's when I got 2 or 3 feet of water in the first floor. ... I haven't seen how bad it is yet. I'm not looking forward to it. - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

I've been told my house was fine - until the levee broke, ... That's when I got 2 or 3 feet of water in the first floor. ... I haven't seen how bad it is yet. I'm not looking forward to it.

Wynton Marsalis

[Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis says it's very] painful ... New Orleans is like the soul of our country. - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

[Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis says it's very] painful ... New Orleans is like the soul of our country.

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We really turned it into a jazz work, ... We did a lot of playing with - and off - the orchestra. But we were watching the conductor the whole time. We weren't just out there. We worked everything out in advance. ... We're very pleased with the way it turned out. - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

We really turned it into a jazz work, ... We did a lot of playing with - and off - the orchestra. But we were watching the conductor the whole time. We weren't just out there. We worked everything out in advance. ... We're very pleased with the way it turned out.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz

These great jazz musicians set new standards for instrumental and vocal performance in the 20th century. Their work stands as a testament to the creative power of jazz. ... - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

These great jazz musicians set new standards for instrumental and vocal performance in the 20th century. Their work stands as a testament to the creative power of jazz. ...

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz

I told her, 'I'll be there -- if you wake me up! Just let the phone ring a lot.' - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

I told her, 'I'll be there -- if you wake me up! Just let the phone ring a lot.'

Wynton Marsalis

I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like hoe-downs, fiddle songs, and the art of improvisation, and the New Orleans funeral tradition, and call-and-response church singing, and the fact that the blues run through everything. And in our relationship to European music, in that we don't have to imitate it, it's a part of us, inseparable. - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like hoe-downs, fiddle songs, and the art of improvisation, and the New Orleans funeral tradition, and call-and-response church singing, and the fact that the blues run through everything. And in our relationship to European music, in that we don't have to imitate it, it's a part of us, inseparable.

Wynton Marsalis

It's like seeing something very scary to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's very moving... New Orleans is like the soul of our country, so we have to help. - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

It's like seeing something very scary to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's very moving... New Orleans is like the soul of our country, so we have to help.

Wynton Marsalis

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches. - Wynton Marsalis Quotes

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

Wynton Marsalis

American Musician

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