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Jon Batiste Quotes

born 1986 United States

Jonathan Michael Batiste (born November 11, 1986) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, bandleader, television personality and actor.

United States
Actors
Composers
Guitarists
Music producers

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Classical music is cool, but what if you took it and you expressed it in this way instead of the way that everybody says you should express it?

Our understanding of music and our understanding of who we could be and who we actually are has limited us from knowing our history

And then I moved to New York and I started hearing Thelonious Monk's music at jam sessions and I was like, 'Oh, wow, I'm trying to be able to play in a way that is very aligned to this music.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jon Batiste (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.