Flying Lotus Quotes

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.