Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. Wynton Marsalis Read Quote
My daddy thought – no, he expected – that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on. Wynton Marsalis Read Quote
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. Wynton Marsalis Read Quote
I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. Wynton Marsalis Read Quote
I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don’t agree with the dominant mythology. Wynton Marsalis Read Quote
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you ‘sell’ only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. Wynton Marsalis Read Quote
