Quotes by : Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down,....

The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick....

Jazz is democracy in music.

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.....

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like....

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes....

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence.....

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.....