I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or something. That's not what it is.

Next quotes

• Kamasi Washington:

  People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not

• Kamasi Washington:

  My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

• Kamasi Washington:

  My mum liked gospel and R&B, Chaka Khan, and Whitney Houston.

• Kamasi Washington:

  All John Coltrane's records are amazing.

• Kamasi Washington:

  I started playing with this band, the Polyester Players. It was my introduction into funk. So I wen

• Kamasi Washington:

  Gerald Wilson was one of my mentors: he was in his nineties before he passed and, literally, every

• Kamasi Washington:

  Music is an expression of life, who you are, and what you've been through.

• Kamasi Washington:

  Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig th

• Kamasi Washington:

  L.A. has always been hated on so much. I remember, the first time I went to New York, I was at jam

• Kamasi Washington:

  I was hearing music in my head and trying to play it on the clarinet, but it didn't match.' Then, l