When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty. — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen.… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
