"To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician)... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries."

-- Randy Sandke

#Country Quotes #Art Quotes #Yale Quotes

“I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.”
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
“I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.”
“Not just beautiful, though â€” the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And theyâ€™re watching me. What Iâ€™ve up till now, what Iâ€™m going to do â€” they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heartâ€™s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and Iâ€™ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars â€” how many other things havenâ€™t I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about?”
“The word of God is my vow.”
“I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.”
“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”
“President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obamaâ€™s handicap is Joe Biden.”

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