Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Whenever my dad wasn't practicing, he was listening to music. He had an amazing jazz collection, and my mom had stuff like… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!"I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I used to tell my friends, 'Art Blakey is way more gangster than Eazy-E!' I ended up getting my friends into jazz,… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
We've now got a whole generation of jazz musicians who have been brought up with hip-hop. We've grown up alongside rappers and… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
All forms are complex once you get to a really high level, and jazz and hip-hop are so connected. In hip-hop, you… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I think L.A. has one of the most innovative and forward-thinking jazz scenes in the world. New York definitely has the volume… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
It's either, like, 'Your album was the first jazz album I listened to,' or, like, 'My friend took me to this show,… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
There were two things I discovered when I toured with Snoop. One was that the band was all jazz musicians. The second… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
My dad's also a musician, so jazz was always around the house. When I was 11, I developed an interest in it,… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the 'Pimp a Butterfly' sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. 'I want it to sound… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
When I started saxophone, my dad took me to my uncle's church, and I started playing there, too. At its best, music… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Los Angeles has always been overlooked as far as jazz, and just high-level music in general. But, like, my dad's a musician,… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
People like to compartmentalise music, especially African-American music, but it's really one thing. One very wide thing. I mean, it's like all… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
When I was about seventeen, I had a group called the Young Jazz Giants. We played all originals. When we would finish… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Every day we're here is an opportunity to do what we can to make the world right, to help someone close or far from… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
I was hearing music in my head and trying to play it on the clarinet, but it didn't match.' Then, literally the first day,… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
It's either, like, 'Your album was the first jazz album I listened to,' or, like, 'My friend took me to this show, and I've… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
We learned at a young age, with our dad, that even if you weren't doing something, you had to look like you were, or… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
West Coast hip hop was the sound of my neighbourhood. It was something I could relate to because it had a sound that felt… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
In the '80s, a lot of kids, if you were kind of bright, you got bussed to schools out of your community. So you… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
You have to dig deep to make great music, and it gets harder and harder. It's a difficult, painful process to reach deep in… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
Fela Kuti blew my mind. His playing is very unorthodox, but I learned how to appreciate that. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share
