Jon Batiste Quotes
We are in a technological age, and 'Social Music' aims to reflect that spirit of advancement, collaboration and connectivity while still remaining 'human.' And Stay Human, then, is a reminder of what connects us all. It's our mantra.
Quotes to Explore
-
The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
-
Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
-
There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
-
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
-
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
-
People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
-
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
-
It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
-
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
-
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
-
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
-
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
-
I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
-
Love is a credulous thing.
-
Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
-
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
-
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)
-
Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.
-
The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.
-
The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.
-
My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.
-
We are in a technological age, and 'Social Music' aims to reflect that spirit of advancement, collaboration and connectivity while still remaining 'human.' And Stay Human, then, is a reminder of what connects us all. It's our mantra.
