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“Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.”
Source : "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015. 
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“I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.”
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“Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.”
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“We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.”
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“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
Source : Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.”
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“I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?”
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“The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world’s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there’s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you’ve nothing better to do.”
Source : Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin
