Quotes By Wynton Marsalis

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

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.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

Thank the good Lord for a job.

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.