"Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope."

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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

#Telescopes Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Microscopes Quotes

“I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they called me - very funny. I didn't take offense. I just thought, This is exactly where I want to be. The pace was different. Houston is a sprawling city. Boston is just crammed into the size of a postage stamp.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.”
“My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.”
“I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.”
“As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.”
“I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why my publisher would publish this book [You belong to the universe] about it long after he's dead and irrelevant by many standards has to do with the fact that he was in a sense coming up with this job for himself that is the job that we now refer to when we speak about world change.”
“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.”

Source : Enid Blyton (2013). “Enid Blyton Circus Collection 3 in 1”, p.104, Egmont UK
“Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'”

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