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Jason Moran Quotes

American - Musician | January 21, 1975 -

From being a teacher and educator, I see the state of the music through the eyes of an 18-year-old coming on to the scene, and we want to make sure it stays intact. With my generation, it's our duty to do that.

Music Teacher Eyes Generation Want

Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.

Music History Art Pain People

I play a Monk song, it's like you get possessed. And then you have to break that spell. You have to remind yourself that you are an individual, or that you aren't Thelonious Monk.

Yourself Song You Play Individual

America used to be proud of abstraction, and we have fallen away from it. The future depends on people trying to promote that abstract thinking. Not just in relation to music and jazz and the arts, but the economy, social strife, tension between people.

Future Music People Proud Thinking

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

Good You Skills Want Jazz Your

As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

Nature Theme Take Constantly

I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

Kind Way Things Contemporary Perform

I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.

Future Feel Tradition Jazz Like Too

I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she writes about it.

Work I Am Process She Her Fan

I have that huge print from Pollock by the piano because the influence is reciprocal. He was into hearing music while he created, and I sometimes do the opposite. I'm influenced by everything from an ant to a dream.

Music Influence Dream Sometimes

Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.

Saying You Back Want Talk Like

As a listener, we're looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us - who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do.

People Looking Action Story Person

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