Jon Batiste Quotes

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that it brings people together, levels the playing field and opens people up.

My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

It's the music that brings us together.

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

To me, just to be surrounded by others, even without a common purpose, is great fulfillment.

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. We can all jam.

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.