“It's either, like, 'Your album was the first jazz album I listened to,...” — Kamasi Washington Quote

“It's either, like, 'Your album was the first jazz album I listened to,' or, like, 'My friend took me to this show, and I've never been to a jazz show before, but, man, I'm so happy I came. I can't wait to go home and see more.' And you can feel it in the crowd, too. You can see the groups of people that don't really know what to expect.”

“When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.”

“I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!' I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us; you hated the idea of jazz.'”

“I draw from the crowd a lot.”

“There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.”

“Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.”