Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.
Wynton MarsalisArt is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never know who Walt Whitman was, and never read a poem.
Wynton MarsalisThe only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
Wynton MarsalisMaybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
Wynton MarsalisI worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s - after World War II - changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.
Wynton Marsalis