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Wynton Marsalis

"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."

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"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."

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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

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