My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
Wynton MarsalisThe soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
Wynton MarsalisThe musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
Wynton MarsalisCommercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
Wynton MarsalisI get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to represent our culture and our way of life. The feeling and the warmth and the love, it's unbelievable. The type of exchange that goes on between students and teachers or visiting people who are doing master classes, and not just when they're musicians. Even general classes, when the students are not necessarily musicians.
Wynton Marsalis