Jazz (TV Mini Series)
Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917 (2001)
Wynton Marsalis: Self - Trumpet
Quotes
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Wynton Marsalis : Jazz music objectifies America. It's an art form that can give us a painless way of understanding ourselves.
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Wynton Marsalis : The real power of jazz and the real innovation of jazz is that a group of people can come together and create art, improvised art, and can negotiate their agendas with each other, and that negotiation is the art.
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Wynton Marsalis : Jazz music celebrates life, human life: the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it.
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Wynton Marsalis : I think that the original meaning of jazz was procreation, and you can't get more deep and profound than that unless you contemplate the Creator.
