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Wynton Marsalis

"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."

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"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."

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"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"

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"Don't say, "the sky is my limit", say, "I progress ad infinitum."

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"This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press."

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"They say to never look back.But sometimes I do. It's gratifying to see how far I've come."

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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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"Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something."
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"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."
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"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
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"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard."
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"I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play."
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"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music."
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"Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk."
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"The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves."
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"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"
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