"Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art."

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Source : Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.13, Random House

Wynton Marsalis

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes #Self Quotes

“When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an artist, art is the truest expression of yourself. Even if you're painting a life you don't have.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We, as a band, love each other. We're brothers. So we fight. Somebody will call somebody else a douchebag. At the end of the day, we look at how far we've come and realize it would be foolish for us to ever take this for granted. We have a family. And not just a family at home, the family that has grown up with us and supported us through the years. We can't let them down.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“None of us are saints.”
“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers,”

Source : Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
“I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.”

Source : "2012 Showdown in Missouri". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2011.
“The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.”
“I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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