Hip hop Quote by Kamasi Washington Download Open image “I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.” — Kamasi Washington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hip hop Jazz Moving Never Problem
As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw 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 always been… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter. — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring. — Lemmy Copy Share Image
Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life and you… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every genre and… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis… — Christopher Jackson 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 far from… — Kamasi Washington 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 first day,… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre. — Kamasi Washington 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, and I've… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect. — Kamasi Washington 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 Copy Share Image
We learned at a young age, with our dad, that even if you weren't doing something, you had to look like you were, or… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
West Coast hip hop was the sound of my neighbourhood. It was something I could relate to because it had a sound that felt… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
In the '80s, a lot of kids, if you were kind of bright, you got bussed to schools out of your community. So you… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington 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 allow yourself… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for… — Roxanne Shante Copy Share Image
Couples Therapy' is pretty big for me because it's opening the door to a new audience - a hip-hop following, which I feel is… — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the… — El-P Copy Share Image
