"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."
- "The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States."
- "What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."
More In Education
- "It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination."― Adam Weishaupt
- "The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."― James S. Coleman
- "Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that’s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."― Edsger Dijkstra