Ellis Marsalis, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.
-- Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

#Individuality #Becoming #Jazz
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.
-- Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

#Light #Water #Towers
Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument.
-- Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

#Skills #Jazz #Century

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.
An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraÃ®nera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
If people don't like my music now, they will.
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

Ellis Marsalis, Jr. famous quotes

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