Wynton Marsalis Quotes

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.

Americans have always been amongst the most revolutionary people of the world.

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin.

Ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

There is a hundred times more enthusiasm for this revolution in any café in Paris than there is in all the United States together.

Tecumseh is one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

Revolutions never go backward.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

We are revolutionaries.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.