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Jon Batiste Quotes

In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1986

Topics

Live Ride Collaboration Energy You

The little man is still a man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Little Still Little Man

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

Everything Something Paid Been

I thought Doodyville was inside of the television. You know, like, if television was this box - and if I went inside the box that was a television, I'd be in Doodyville.

Thought You Television Know Inside

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

Time People Laugh Someone Trying

I'll come down the stairs, and my parents and sister will be like, 'What are you wearing?'

Suki Waterhouse

Parents Sister You Down Stairs Will

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

Work Time Soul Poetry New York Me

I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fit. I need to get back to where I am very confident in my ability to bike a long way.

Bike I Am Confident Long Back Way

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.

Time Writing World I Can Hard Zen

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

Mother Teacher School Child House

We need to direct our efforts toward one goal, and that is to survive.

Survive Goal Need Our Direct Toward

If your main reason for opening a bar is to have somewhere for you and your friends to hang out, then build a bar in your basement, and stay out of the industry.

Friends You Build Opening Reason

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Grow Doing Trying Everything Paint

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