My mum liked gospel and R&B, Chaka Khan, and Whitney Houston. — Kamasi Washington Christianity Copy Share Image
I was that kid who made his friends listen to the albums they didn't want to. — Kamasi Washington Albums Copy Share Image
When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre. — Kamasi Washington Genre Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a collage. It samples from all different styles of music. — Kamasi Washington Collage Copy Share Image
Music is an expression of life, who you are, and what you've been through. — Kamasi Washington Depression 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
I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
We do have the power to kind of make this world what we want it to be. But we have to just… — 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 Amazing Copy Share Image
If we all give our power to one person, that's what the world will be. If we all decide to make the… — Kamasi Washington Beautiful Copy Share Image
As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music. — Kamasi Washington Music Copy Share Image
The song 'Leroy and Lanisha' on my album 'The Epic' is really my homage to 'Linus and Lucy.' — Kamasi Washington Album Copy Share Image
Music doesn't come out of you, it comes through you. You are almost like a messenger. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
If you look up, and you see that all of a sudden the world is really coming down on people with brown… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything… — Kamasi Washington Best way Copy Share Image
L.A. is a big city that has a lot of music in it but is not necessarily known for it. A lot… — Kamasi Washington Big city Copy Share Image
Gerald Wilson was one of my mentors: he was in his nineties before he passed and, literally, every time I saw him,… — Kamasi Washington Amazing Copy Share Image
I was hearing music in my head and trying to play it on the clarinet, but it didn't match.' Then, literally the… — Kamasi Washington Day 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 Beautiful 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 Jazz Copy Share Image
I grew up with a sense of music being a very spiritual experience while playing in church and with parents who were… — Kamasi Washington Church 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 Friendship Copy Share Image
In general, in my life, one of the coolest things that I've been able to do is to go to different places… — Kamasi Washington Beauty 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 Dad Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington Jazz Copy Share Image
I'm trying to just keep pushing on the things I've been wanting to do in my life and in music. And think… — Kamasi Washington Life Copy Share Image
My dad was very much a Pan-Africanist and instilled in me and my siblings a want for that knowledge. — Kamasi Washington Dad Copy Share Image
American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come… — 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
When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something. — Kamasi Washington Heart Copy Share Image
I have to always check back in with my imagination just to remember that I have this infinite potential, and I can… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
