American - Musician | February 18, 1981 -
My hope is that witnessing the beautiful harmony created by merging different musical melodies will help people realize the beauty in our own differences.
Kamasi Washington
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Someone like Donald Trump can't control the way I show love to my brother. He can't control the way I feel about my neighbors.
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Isaac Smith sounded like Curtis Fuller, Corey Hogan sounded like Sonny Rollins, Terrace Martin sounded like Jackie McLean. Already, at 13, 14, 15 years old.
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I like living on that edge, musically. I like a bit of insecurity and that feeling of not really knowing what's going to happen.
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American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.
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My dad was very much a Pan-Africanist and instilled in me and my siblings a want for that knowledge.
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Jazz is a part of me.
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There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.
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When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.
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As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.
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I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.
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People like to compartmentalise music, especially African-American music, but it's really one thing. One very wide thing. I mean, it's like all those great records by Marvin Gaye and James Brown back in the day - there are tonnes of jazz musicians playing on them.
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