Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalisis a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the son of jazz musician Ellis Marsalis, Jr., grandson of Ellis Marsalis, Sr., and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth18 October 1961
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
Wynton Marsalis quotes about
I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
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.
I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is not one big mass of people with a proverbial beer in its hand, keeping the country down. That is not my experience of it and I don't labor under that misconception. And we have a long tradition of coming together through music in our country.
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.
My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.
We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.
There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.
Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.