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
So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre. — Kamasi Washington Genre 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 Guy 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
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
Music doesn't come out of you, it comes through you. You are almost like a messenger. — Kamasi Washington Come 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 American 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
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
If you look up, and you see that all of a sudden the world is really coming down on people with brown… — Kamasi Washington Black hair 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
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
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
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
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington Jazz 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
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
'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
I don't want to live my life to necessarily overcome struggle, but when I am going to hit struggle throughout my life,… — Kamasi Washington Adversity 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
