Wynton Marsalis Quotes

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

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• We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • People
  • May
  • True

• I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • House
  • Faith

• During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Children
  • Political
  • Small

• I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down – no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Try
  • Read

• I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

  

  Gallagher
  • Want
  • Government
  • Fire

• I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Guy
  • Hate

• It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• I only can properly enjoy carol services if I am having an illicit affair with someone in the congregation. Why is this? Perhaps because they are essentially pagan, not Christian, celebrations.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Why
  • Christian

• In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Work
  • School

• There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

  

  Mary MacLane

• When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Together
  • Movie

• I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.

  

  Mark O'Donnell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Hope

• My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

  

  Chazz Palminteri
  • Good
  • God
  • Mother

• For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle.

  

  Kevin McCarthy

• I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • School

• There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Death

• First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.

  

  Anthony Hemingway
  • Black

• History” has very little to say about this war other than to recall the greatest battle ever fought between Arabs and Persians on the plains of Qadisiyyah in southern Iraq (A.D. 636). This event produces intensely emotive imagery in Iraq where the war was officially called Qadisiyyat Saddam. The irony is, however, that the battle of Qadisiyya only succeeded in overthrowing the Sassanian empire because of how rotted through it had become, and historians are agreed that the Arabs won because Iranians abandoned their army in droves to join the Islamic advance. Moreover, Iraq was inside the Sassanian empire at the time (the ruins of its capital, Ctesiphon, are in the geographical center of modern Iraq). So this kind of history is made up of a heap of ironies and is not the “cause” of anything; it merely confirms, albeit negatively, how “modern” Iraqis and Iranians have become.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • History
  • Battle
  • Arabs

• For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Adapt
  • Contents
  • Paintbox

• I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

  

  Wynton Marsalis
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