23 Jason Moran Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jason Moran

American Musician

Born: Jan 21, 1975

Because Jazz Me Music People You

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As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it. Jason Moran

Nature Constantly Take Improviser Theme

I have that huge print from Pollock by the piano because the influence is reciprocal. He was into hearing music while he created, and I sometimes do the opposite. I'm influenced by everything from an ant to a dream. Jason Moran

Music Sometimes Reciprocal Everything Dream Piano He Print Because Ant Opposite Hearing Huge Influence Influenced While Created

Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you. Jason Moran

Saying You Back Pianos Like Talk Want Then

As a listener, we're looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us - who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do. Jason Moran

People Sometimes Looking Action Resonates Our Fats Tell Has-Been Kind Lift Excites Almost Know Him Knows Within How Go Been Person Decades Listener Story Us Molecules Who Deeply Need Core

I'm lazy. I don't practice enough. I do other stuff. I'm not a musician's musician, and I don't necessarily know if I want to be. When I hear something and want to work on it, then that's what my project will be. Jason Moran

Work Will Practice Other Enough Project Musician Something Lazy Stuff Know Hear Want Then Necessarily

Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners. Jason Moran

Musicians Money Own Jazz Market Some My Own Pick Dell Well Make Stocks Any Microsoft Might Jazz Musicians Tech

Bjork's album, 'Homogenic,' it's got beats, strings, traditional Icelandic stuff. That's my benchmark for what an album should sound like, right up there with Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' and Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On.' Jason Moran

Love Benchmark Strings Beats Coltrane Stuff Like Supreme Got Sound Traditional Up Going Should Right Album

My killer crossover project would be to combine Bjork and Grace Jones with the West Coast rappers and create this massive music. That's, like, one of my dreams. Jason Moran

Music Dreams Grace Project Killer Would Would-Be Rappers Crossover Combine Like Massive West West Coast Create Coast

The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask the musicians to evolve. How do you do that with a form of music that has 100 years of recorded history? How do you also keep it contemporary so you don't isolate your listeners? These are major questions. Jason Moran

Music Great History You Musicians Duty Jazz Stations Evolve Evolving Recorded Major Contemporary Also Isolate How Audiences Continue Years Questions Listeners Just Form Format Ask Your Radio Radio Stations Keep

In school, I did a lot of computer work. I'd take splices from Kurt Weill songs and loop them in bars, in beats of seven, trying all different kinds of things. Jason Moran

Work School Different Kinds Seven Kinds Computer Take Songs Beats Loop Kurt Lot Trying Did Different Them Bars Things

Are we, as humans, gaining any insight on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context. So I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster. Jason Moran

Music Thoughts Emotions Sometimes Lose Our Those Sight Ourselves Insight Record Charlie Charlie Parker About Something Parker Abstract Talk How Context Dialogue Continue Gets Any Want Gaining Us Foster Things Humans Wider

I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing. Jason Moran

Love Bach Understand Any Mozart Playing

If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do. Jason Moran

You Space Top OK Possibility Run Carved Entire Piano River He Opened Like Know Call Does Sound Hear Up Goes Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Lets Play Monk

Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens. Jason Moran

Freedom Me You Language Thought Jazz Adept Tell Kind Able Something Through Develop Freedom Of Expression Most Attracted Instrument Within Improvisation Via Maybe Stories Happens Really Express Expressing Expression Thing

While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored. Jason Moran

Increasingly Bored Inside Hawk Outside Jordan Practising Were Friends Michael Michael Jordan Disillusioned While Mozart Playing Tony

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