Marsalis Quotes

Your life is valuable and worth something, and look at this contribution that we are bringing to this country. - Wynton Marsalis

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. - Wynton Marsalis

You miss your family and your kids... There are long drives everyday; concerts finish at 10:30 and then you sign autographs until maybe 2 or 3 o'clock; you leave maybe at 7, and you do that 5 or 6 days in a row. - Wynton Marsalis

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't. - Branford Marsalis

You had the good-time people right next to a lot of real church people. - Wynton Marsalis

When the water is pumped out and the lights are back on, we're definitely going back. - Ellis Marsalis

When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't. - Wynton Marsalis

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?' - Wynton Marsalis