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Wynton Marsalis Quotes

«[Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis says it's very] painful ... New Orleans is like the soul of our country.»
«It hurts me, it's my hometown. I know the spirit of New Orleans in in all of us.»
«Obviously, New Orleans, from a musical standpoint, is the melting pot when we talk about America.»
«Our city will come back, but it will take the entire country. When you take New Orleans from America, our soul equation goes down.»
«And then the West Africans were allowed to play their music in Congo Square. That happened nowhere else in the United States. That was the true key ingredient. The music and all the traditions and the sense of self-worth that comes with being able to have your own art form and customs and traditions, that was a part of the Afro American that lived in New Orleans.»
«We've seen each other a lot of times, but it's the first time we had played ... and it was great,»
«I've always loved Dave as a man and as a musician ... he's always just a gentleman, a man with a dignity.»
«[Jesse Jackson drove that point home with blunt-force trauma when he assessed the scene in New Orleans and declared that] it looks like Africans in the hull of a slave ship. ... we hear a lot of words, but we don?t see a lot of action.»
«a sense of loss, a great and deep loss.»
«Congo Square is the only place where African slaves were allowed to play their music, and is one of the most-important points»

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