I was that kid who made his friends listen to the albums they didn't want to. — Kamasi Washington Albums 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 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 Break 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 Choose Copy Share Image
As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music. — Kamasi Washington Music 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
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 Always Copy Share Image
So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre. — Kamasi Washington Genre 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
My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. — Kamasi Washington Archie 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
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 Guy 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
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
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
My third day playing saxophone, I was in front of a congregation. I still didn't know the names of all the notes.… — Kamasi Washington Day 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… — Kamasi Washington Day 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 Art 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 Band 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
'Harmony of Difference,' to me, was an opportunity to celebrate one another. And 'Fists of Fury' is an opportunity for us to… — Kamasi Washington Anger Copy Share Image
Isaac Smith sounded like Curtis Fuller, Corey Hogan sounded like Sonny Rollins, Terrace Martin sounded like Jackie McLean. Already, at 13, 14, 15 years old. — Kamasi Washington Isaac 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 Jazz Copy Share Image
Fela Kuti blew my mind. His playing is very unorthodox, but I learned how to appreciate that. — Kamasi Washington Appreciate Copy Share Image
I think the reason why I see life as this never-ending struggle is because I imagine it having endless potential. — Kamasi Washington I think Copy Share Image
There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed. — Kamasi Washington Music Copy Share Image
My hope is that witnessing the beautiful harmony created by merging different musical melodies will help people realize the beauty in our… — Kamasi Washington Beautiful Copy Share Image
This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect. — Kamasi Washington Empathy Copy Share Image
I can't really worry about nuclear war any more than I can worry about the aliens coming. — Kamasi Washington Fear Copy Share Image
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… — Kamasi Washington Allow Copy Share Image
By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician. — Kamasi Washington About Copy Share Image
I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged… — Kamasi Washington Drums Copy Share Image
Becoming a musician is a strange thing. It's not all cupcakes and ice cream. You're trying to master an instrument, and you… — Kamasi Washington Better Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'To Pimp A Butterfly' and 'DAMN.,' I'm really making music for Kendrick. It's a different mindset than… — Kamasi Washington Butterfly Copy Share Image
When I was younger... we used to go to this place called Rexall to play 'Street Fighter.' At Rexall, there would be… — Kamasi Washington Different people Copy Share Image
