“So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notion...” — Kamasi Washington Quote

“So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.”

“A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.”

“Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.”

“What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.”

“It's always better to offer variety to the audience rather than singing just one kind of genre.”

“I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.”