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 Broadway 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
'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
Music is this medium to express who I am and what I've been through and my thoughts and what my feelings on… — Kamasi Washington I am Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it… — Kamasi Washington Beautiful Copy Share Image
One of the things I did learn from 'The Epic' was that we don't have to feel so much pressure to conform… — Kamasi Washington Learn 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 Best 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 Best 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 Dad 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
Music is an expression of life, who you are, and what you've been through. — Kamasi Washington Depression 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
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
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 Best Copy Share Image
I've known that about myself, that I've had two sides: one that's pretty tactical, down to earth, aware. There's also a really… — Kamasi Washington Down to earth Copy Share Image
My mum liked gospel and R&B, Chaka Khan, and Whitney Houston. — Kamasi Washington Christianity Copy Share Image
Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step… — Kamasi Washington Clarity Copy Share Image
A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts… — Kamasi Washington Control 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 Gift Copy Share Image
Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my… — Kamasi Washington Direction 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
