53 ordspråk av Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
I've been told my house was fine - until the levee broke, ... That's when I got 2 or 3 feet of water in the first floor. ... I haven't seen how bad it is yet. I'm not looking forward to it.
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If I had to say one thing that's important, we need to bring our artists back.
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If you know drum and base players, that is the hardest thing in the world. To swing, these instruments must get together and stay together. It's harder than a man and a woman.
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In Vienna every place Beethoven looked at, it's marked by something.
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It hurts me, it's my hometown. I know the spirit of New Orleans in in all of us.
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It was an awkward feeling watching it from that far away, ... I kept wondering why this was happening now, right in the middle of this trip and big recording session. ... But I learned a long time ago to separate music from personal issues. When you're playing music, that's where all your focus should be.
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It was the best and the worst week I ever had,
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It's like seeing something very scary to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's very moving... New Orleans is like the soul of our country, so we have to help.
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Let's get them working because they will stimulate the economy. They'll give people something to come back and see.
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Man, we are going to do what we can do. We are serious about saving our city.
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Most of you have returned at a time when many would have stayed away.
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No way in the world that it's going to turn New Orleans into that.
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Obviously, New Orleans, from a musical standpoint, is the melting pot when we talk about America.
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On behalf of my city, it's such a great honor to be here because I'm from New Orleans and I love New Orleans so much, but I also love New York very deeply. So it's like a double honor for me.
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Our city will come back, but it will take the entire country. When you take New Orleans from America, our soul equation goes down.
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