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Wynton Marsalis

Trumpeter and composer; artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center

United States · b. 1961

Trumpeter from New Orleans who has won Grammy Awards in both jazz and classical categories and, in 1997, the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center since its founding.

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Question What are you most proud of? Identity & self read 96 other answers →

I’m the most proud when I get something from cities, or people. At first I was against awards, you know. I would always say, “This is so fake. The people who vote on this stuff, they never listen to the music.” But for me it’s when I received awards or something from the city. Just to go to somebody’s house and eat. Or people come and say, “We spent our anniversary checking you out,” or “We were making love to one of your records, and we had a child!” See that kind of stuff makes me feel good. Like you get a key to the city and the people are really into it. Not just, “Oh, let’s give him the key to the city because he got some publicity.” It will be some people you knew, and you were there at their school, and you worked in the community.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, New York, New York, 8 January 1991 source ↗

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