It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
Wynton MarsalisNothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
Wynton MarsalisThrough first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
Wynton MarsalisThe arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.
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