"Once I had the band, Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] - it's very exciting to have that trio of just world-class guys - I already knew it was going to be fantastic. I didn't really tell them anything about it. They didn't know what they were going to play beforehand."

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Source : Source: revive-music.com

Jose James

#Class Quotes #Play Quotes #Guy Quotes

“I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.”
“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”
“there is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.”

Source : "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. 274), 1964.
“Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .”
“I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.”
“Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away.”
“In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.”
“I put in the work to hand Keith Thurman his first loss.”

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