Jason Moran Quotes

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

Disaffection stalks around us.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

Basketball is the axis that allows me to do the things that I do. I have so much love for the game, and it gives me to the option to be able to jump into fashion.

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.

My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn't want me to play basketball.

If I can't work, I don't know what to do with myself.

I don't have friends when I'm on the court, besides my team.

I just don't feel the Olympic spirit.

There's no crying in basketball!

You do something, the same thing over and over again for a long time, you're gonna feel like crap.

I had a big brother so I always wanted him to hang out with me, but he wouldn't. So I always did sports and I always really liked it, but I just was never good at it.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.