Jon Batiste Quotes

Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.

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• Now is the only thing that exists.

  

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• The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.

  

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• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

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• Hits and flops are overrated.

  

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• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

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• The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

  

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• The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

  

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• It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

  

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• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

  

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• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

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• You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

  

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• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

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• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  

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• In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.

  

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• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  

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• I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.

  

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• Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

  

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• I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

  

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• So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

  

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• I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

  

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• Whenever I get a little chance to get to Orlando, I like to take a couple days' break with the family, just hang out, go clubbing around town.

  

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• Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.

  

  Jon Batiste
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