#ay

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

— Wynton Marsalis

#clifford #i #like #miles #myself

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 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

The best way to be, is to do. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#best way #way

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#believe #his #improvising #one thing #played

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#battle #cut #get #having #head

When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#could #everybody #first #i #like

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written. ↗

— James Marsden

#created #garth #had #heavy #i

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that. ↗

— James Marsden

#because #everyone #guy #hate #i