Jonathan Batiste famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything.
-- Jonathan Batiste

#Jazz #Creation #Universe
With the audience, I always say it's about giving the people an experience. And what the experience is about, it transcends just the music, and genre, and the venue. It's about the people coming together to share a profound and transformative moment. So that means the listener is actively engaged, and the listener is a part of the show, they're a part of the experience.
-- Jonathan Batiste

#Mean #People #Giving
I always want to be doing both to travel as a teacher and lecturer, and to be a musician. I think in this generation institutionalizing the art form and spreading it to the younger generation through education is really important for all artists to have some hand in. Right now in popular culture and the mainstream, it's not a big part at all. I think education by young artists talking to young people, not just older people talking to young people, it gives an experience never felt before. I think over the years it will do a lot for the music.
-- Jonathan Batiste

#Teacher #Art #Thinking

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.
The basis of everything I do is the universe.
Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

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