Jazz icon Wynton Marsalis is on the road making new music from New York City to Singapore. But it’s his love of music that seems to always come through to audiences around the world. The following quotes are from Marsalis on jazz.

"Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art."

"Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock ‘n’ roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition."

"What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect."

"As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also."

by Wynton Marsalis

Sources:
https://wyntonmarsalis.org/tour/upcoming
https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/musicians