"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.“

-Wynton Marsalis

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"People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly."

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"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music."

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"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."

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"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

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"There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation."

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