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Wynton Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. Born on October 18, 1961, he has made significant contributions to the field of jazz music. Marsalis has won numerous awards, including nine Grammy Awards, and has been a leading figure in the jazz community.

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Famous Wynton Marsalis Quotes

“Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.”

Art Real Hard Helping Kids Spiritual Young Sound Emotion Consciousness Focus Prove Music Is Essence Invisible Invisible Things

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“The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.”

Heart Music Is Rhythm Sections Rhythm Section

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“Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.”

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Book:Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

Source: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

“Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.”

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Book:Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

Source: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

“Jazz music is the power of now.”

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“This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.”

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Book:Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life

Source: Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life

“Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician”

Firsts Musician Music Is Listeners

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“Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.”

Music Is Jazz Armstrong

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“No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.”

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“I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

About the Author

Born: October 18, 1961
Known for: Trumpeter
Quotes: 193

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