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The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
-Wynton Marsalis
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The Reason Why The Music [jazz] Is

Wynton Marsalis
The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
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I love jazz. so to me, there are two main types of jazz. there's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. listening jazz is like thelonius monk or john coltrane, where it's a listening experience. so that's what i like; i like to make stuff that you listen to. it's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. that's why you sit and listen to jazz. you dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. i think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.
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I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. beginning at around age three i started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. i like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. it's always where i go back to when i want to feel grounded.
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We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. if we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.
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Jazz is the greatest american art form and our greatest export. we don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. i feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with donald byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
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I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. but i was outside the bagdad theater in portland one night when i saw a man playing the saxophone. i stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. after that i liked jazz music. sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. it is as if they are showing you the way. i used to not like god because god didn't resolve. but that was before any of this happened.
Eye Night Men
I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but i do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. my foundation has been in jazz, though i didn't really start out that way. i started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
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