53 ordspråk av Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
 [Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis says it's very] painful ... New Orleans is like the soul of our country. |
| [Jesse Jackson drove that point home with blunt-force trauma when he assessed the scene in New Orleans and declared that] it looks like Africans in the hull of a slave ship. ... we hear a lot of words, but we don’t see a lot of action. |
| a sense of loss, a great and deep loss. |
| And then the West Africans were allowed to play their music in Congo Square. That happened nowhere else in the United States. That was the true key ingredient. The music and all the traditions and the sense of self-worth that comes with being able to have your own art form and customs and traditions, that was a part of the Afro American that lived in New Orleans. |
| Congo Square is the only place where African slaves were allowed to play their music, and is one of the most-important points |
| 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. |
| He was an exponent of the music and a defender of it for 50 years on the road, all over the world. He created a body of music that's unequalled, really, with the exception of Bach, in the history of music. |
| I am grateful to Mayor Bloomberg for giving me the opportunity to show that in this season of renewal, the people of the gulf region will rebuild and rejoice once again. |
| I didn't get into classical music till I was in high school. I met a guy on a streetcar who gave me a recording of Maurice André playing classical trumpet concerti. Until then I'd only been interested in Clifford Brown and Miles, but I started liked that, so I got some more of his albums, and when I was 14, I won a competition to play the Haydn trumpet concerto at high school. Yeah, I got better quickly. |
| I hate auto-pilot playing, ... And I think you know the kind of playing I'm talking about. |
| I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like hoe-downs, fiddle songs, and the art of improvisation, and the New Orleans funeral tradition, and call-and-response church singing, and the fact that the blues run through everything. And in our relationship to European music, in that we don't have to imitate it, it's a part of us, inseparable. |
| I knew Christian when he was still a kid and he stood out even then. I never see him that much now, but he was already a phenomenal musician then. He was unbelievable! As a boy, he could play the piano as well as the bass. I was like a band director for him and he could play everything great. |
| I think it's different from anything that's been heard before. |
| I told her, 'I'll be there -- if you wake me up! Just let the phone ring a lot.' |
| I've always loved Dave as a man and as a musician ... he's always just a gentleman, a man with a dignity. |
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Proverb (1469536 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Det är julafton om 36 dagar!
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