Wynton Marsalis

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#band #father #first #got #i

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#clifford #i #like #miles #myself

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#feel #i #like #listening #made

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#american #democracy #glory #important #new

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. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#four #get #going #jazz #just

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#human #human progress #maybe #our #overshadowed

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. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#better #better place #brothers #continual #daddy

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#bands #brother #knew #musicians #myself

Thank the good Lord for a job. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#good lord #job #lord #thank

The bandstand is a sacred place. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#place #sacred