Jon Batiste Quotes

I played with Prince in 2010... the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes.

Jon Batiste

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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.

Gary Jennings
- Up
- Country
- Down
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

Wayne Coyne
- Bad
- Song
- Beginning
I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

Queen Latifah
- School
- Friends
- High
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

Fareed Zakaria
- Long
- America
- Feeling
We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Barack Obama
- America
- Today
- Innovation