Jon Batiste Quotes

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

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going.

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.

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.

It's a good time to be here in America. You feel that people just want to be together and release the pressure and laugh.

I think baseball can bring a lot of happiness to the people and people can be together.

It's lovely to feel part of a community.

I think food brings people together, and it makes people happy.

The Proms are everything life is all about: people coming together, and joy and music and celebration and togetherness.

I think that's very important, that a friend makes you laugh, and you're just giddy around them all the time.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.