Kamasi Washington Quotes

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.