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.

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

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study,....

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove.....

I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better....

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what....

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

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums....