Quotes by Jon Batiste - Page 1

Music is a tool that brings people together.
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Music Together People
Brings
Tool
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As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
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Armstrong
Louis
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On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.
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Personal Life
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The beauty of jazz is that it can accommodate all styles. You can take jazz and put rock in it, and it's still jazz.
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Accommodate
Styles
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The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.
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New York
Car
Sitting
Social
Subway
Together
Life Great Together
Each
Experiment
Races
Ways
York
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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.
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Band
Being Scared
Musical
Scared
Stage
Stiff
Drums
Earliest
Memory
Youngster
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It's not like the old competition that you had between Leno and Letterman. It's a friendly competition between Fallon and Stephen.
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Friendly
Leno
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The music is really about sharing an experience. That's why we call it Stay Human. It's like we're sharing this genuine human exchange.
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Genuine
Exchange
Sharing
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Jazz can accommodate so many things. Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation, and it's connected to everything.
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Accommodate
Connected
Creation
Expanding
Jazz
Universe
Since
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Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
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Principles
Purpose
Align
Life Music Believe
Deeply
Whatever
My Life
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In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.
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Audience
Collaboration
Energy
Flow
Live Performance
Television
Crowd
Ebb
Performance
Ride
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With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
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Experience
Music
Communicate
Forget
Genuine
Live Music
Exchange
Disposal
Human
Must
Transformative
Ways
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My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.
Jon Batiste /
Ability
Audience
Engagement
Entertainment
Genre
New Orleans
Experience New Way
Orleans
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I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.
Jon Batiste /
Bible
Catholic
Catholic Church
Christianity
Principles
Raised
Spirit
Life Me My Life
Within
Me
Life Me Bible
Thought
Guiding
My Life
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I still consider myself to be introverted, but everyone has a side of themselves that is amplified. Performers have to learn to tap into that, even if it's not natural.
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Introverted
Performers
Amplified
Tap
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There's a tradition - in New Orleans it still exists - where people play in the street. People play outside of the venues. Food, music, and that cultural exchange, it happens anywhere.
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New Orleans
Venues
Exchange
Cultural
Exists
Orleans
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Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.
Jon Batiste /
Imagine
Lineage
Percent
Family Time Music
Hundred Years
Musicians
Play Music
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I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.
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Born
Dying
Louisiana
Natural
Life Good Music
Played
Families
Occasion
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I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.
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Uncles
Heritage
Joined
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The Batiste family is a large musical family in Louisiana, out in New Orleans. People go to New Orleans, and if they go to any club, four days out of the week I guarantee you that you will find a Batiste playing in the ensemble.
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Ensemble
Louisiana
Musical
New Orleans
Family People Will
Family People New
Club
Guarantee
Large
Orleans
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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.
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Advancement
Collaboration
Aims
Connects
Mantra
Reflect
Remaining
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I think it's important for people to stay human and remember that genuine human connection is more fulfilling than anything that technology has to offer. We all have it within us, and music is something that can bring that out of us.
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Fulfilling
Genuine
Connection
Offer
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The thing about Spike Lee... that's a deep experience to work with someone who is that intense and knows their vision that well. The character I play in 'Red Hook Summer' is super country and super loud. I suppose he is some version of myself.
Jon Batiste /
Hook
Intense
Loud
Version
Lee
Suppose
Spike
Spike Lee
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Claude Debussy's 'Children's Corner' is a suite with six movements just for piano. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Alfred Cartot's versions are amazing, but my favorite is Menininha Lobo's. Her version was done when she was an old lady - and you can hear it.
Jon Batiste /
Debussy
Old Lady
Version
Corner
Lady
Movements
Suite
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Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.
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Better Person
Higher Level
Engage
Enriched
Intellectually
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I'm from New Orleans, which is all about direct engagement out in the street with all the parades and Mardi Gras Indians and jazz funerals. I'm trying to take that and put it into my generation, a group that doesn't have enough joy and celebration in their lives.
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Celebration
Direct
Engagement
Jazz
Joy
My Generation
New Orleans
Parades
Funerals
Street
Generation
Group
Indians
Orleans
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My sense of style is influenced by how I feel. I want to express myself because they see you before they hear you. You want to come on stage, and what you look like should represent the song you are playing or the set you are about to play or the message in your music.
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Music Myself Look
Influenced
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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 /
Clothes
Couple
Dancing
Misty
Dates
Gig
Tour
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There were so many people after that first 'Colbert Report' interview that were impressed by the synergy we had during the interview. People everywhere we'd go would say, 'You should be the bandleader; it would be great for jazz. It would be great for the music.' But I was completely against it.
Jon Batiste /
Impressed
Jazz
Synergy
Everywhere
Report
Music Great People
Interview
So Many People
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Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music 'root music.'
Jon Batiste /
American Music
Everyday
Everyday Life
Fabric
Folk Music
Pop Stars
Tickets
Venues
Bought
Folk
Root
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When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You can hear so many influences in it, from the blues to Bach, and it's not just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. They start off singing a cappella, almost like a Bach chorale, and the song goes into this bluesy guitar riff.
Jon Batiste /
Chorus
Bach
Blues
Bridge
Cappella
Influences
Old Thing
Paperback
Riff
Verse
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In the process of them developing this instrument, I've been playing the melodica in the style I would like the harmoniboard to be played, which is a mix between a harmonica and keyboard. I play with trumpet style techniques. I really like the mobility of being able to step off the piano and bring the music to the audience.
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Audience
Developing
Mobility
Piano
Process
Style
Played
Trumpet
Harmonica
Instrument
Mix
Step
Techniques
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I'm always about trying to fill a need with what I do in my artistry. There is definitely a need in the performing arts world for a movement to come along that seriously connects with a next generation audience while still maintaining the timeless artistic objectives present throughout the history of the American music tradition.
Jon Batiste /
American Music
Artistic
Maintaining
Movement
Next Generation
Objectives
Performing
Performing Arts
Timeless
Tradition
History Music World
History Music Always
Arts
Connects
Fill
Generation
Seriously
Throughout
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In such a globally connected world, musicians now have the unique opportunity to express all of the cultural 'mash ups' we are experiencing these days. Akin to the blend of cultures that occurred in early 20th-century New Orleans that led to the birth of jazz, I believe that the world has reached a similar cultural turning point.
Jon Batiste /
Birth
Connected
Jazz
New Orleans
Unique
Blend
Turning
Believe I Believe Opportunity
Cultural
Cultures
Experiencing
Express
Opportunity World Believe
Globally
Led
Mash
Musicians
Occurred
Orleans
Reached
Similar
Turning Point
Unique Opportunity
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Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.
Jon Batiste /
Digital
Embrace
Instance
Millennials
My Generation
Our Generation
Technology World Internet
Technology Always World
Mix
Natives
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We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very venerable place to perform. I'd never heard of anyone going into the Hall and kind of standing on the seats and playing throughout the aisles and having the audience stand on the seats. So when we did that in 2013, even for me it was a shock.
Jon Batiste /
Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Legendary
One Time
Shock
Standing
Time Where Me
Time Me Stand
Hall
Venerable
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