Kamasi Washington Quotes

When Josh and I are recording a record, we're very mindful of how the music will manifest itself live. That's where we have to live every day. When we tour for the next record, I imagine there will be a new story to tell, and we'll introduce new characters.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.

As soon as I'm in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums.