Wynton Marsalis Quotes

There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

I have a talent, I can sing.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.

I'm not the best singer.

Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.

I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

I'm not really a singer.

I never thought I could sing. I still don't.

I'm very confident in my own ability but I'm not guaranteed to get a starting spot.

When somebody tells you that - 'You've never played this sport, but I think you can be a playmaker' - you think the guy's crazy.

Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.

I don't feel like I'm very good at making music.

Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

Never underestimate people.

Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.