Kamasi Washington Quotes

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

Musicians play music because you love... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

I've spent my life playing music.

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

I just always knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician. I never had any doubts.

The plan was to go Juilliard, graduate, and then go across the street and play in the New York Philharmonic - that was the plan, anyway.

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.