Kamasi Washington Quotes

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.