"If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist."

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Source : "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.

Kamasi Washington

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
“Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.”
“I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.”
“Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?”

Source : Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.20, Harper Collins
“I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.”

Source : "Meatless Monday — The Vegucation of Robin Quivers" by Ellen Kanner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.
“All I have to concentrate on is my performing.”
“Success is about taking advantage of opportunity.”
“If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,”

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