Wynton Marsalis was a guest on the Colbert Report, a show on Comedy Central hosted by Stephen Colbert, whose schtick is satirically mocking pompous and superficial hosts. Marsalis took one of Stephen's snide taunts and gave such a beautiful quote, I had put up this mini-post:
Stephen Colbert: How do you win at jazz? Is there a point system?
Wynton Marsalis: Let me tell you what. When you start to play and you see people jumping up and down in the audience, and hollering and screaming, and wanting to get up on the tables... and then some other people next to them have tears coming out of their eyes and another person is sleeping, and the whole room erupts in a volcano of feeling?
Stephen Colbert: Yep.
Wynton Marsalis: You won.
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