Wynton Marsalis Want Quotations

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.

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

If you want to be different, do something different.

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.