Kamasi Washington Quotes

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

I like the music that I sing, cos I, like, feel it more.

If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

I really believe in the power of music.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

Me personally, I think all the barriers that are put up between genres are so easily broken. People just love music that moves them.

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

I feel like a lot of people can relate to my music.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say.

Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.

I think that the whole point of music is that there shouldn't be rules. There is no right or wrong. And the fact that I may not like that piece of music and you may... The validation is in the fact that somebody gets something from it.

Music is like wine, it ages beautifully - and if you spend enough time you can just sit there and listen to it entirely differently.

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.