Wynton Marsalis Quotes

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

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• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Think
  • Know

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Game

• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Well

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Greed
  • Idiot
  • Newspaper

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Leadership

• I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Opportunity
  • Myself
  • Fight

• I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • Age
  • Proud

• I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Sex
  • Symbol
  • Skinny

• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Strategy

• Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Man
  • Find

• I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Love
  • Limit
  • Comes

• You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Age
  • Me

• I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Politics
  • Better
  • Indians

• Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Sin

• I'm so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it's working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.

  

  Aubrey Peeples
  • People
  • Culture
  • Famous

• Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Fan

• My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Night
  • Sweet
  • Grandmother

• The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.

  

  John Lawson
  • Men
  • Country

• I think that the reality is, is that there's a shift in the mood in the USA that's very anti-Washington.

  

  Reince Priebus
  • Reality
  • Washington
  • Shift

• The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

  

  Wynton Marsalis
  • Music
  • Jazz
  • Archangel