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 MarsalisI always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
Wynton MarsalisMany of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.
Wynton Marsalis