Empathy Quote by Kamasi Washington

“This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.”

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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…

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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,…

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So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

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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…

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By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

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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…

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West Coast hip hop was the sound of my neighbourhood. It was something I could relate to because it had a sound that felt…

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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…

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In the '80s, a lot of kids, if you were kind of bright, you got bussed to schools out of your community. So you…

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Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

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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…

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I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that…

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