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Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.
— Wynton Marsalis
Tags: balance, feeling, time, you

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Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
— Wynton Marsalis
Tags: ready, see, like, fight
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
— Wynton Marsalis
Tags: lips, like, never, me
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
— Wynton Marsalis
Tags: band, old, father, time
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
— Wynton Marsalis
Tags: remember, calm, people, you
The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
— Wynton Marsalis
Tags: section, rhythm, heart, music
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