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.
Jon BatisteRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of joy and celebration in life, inspired by cultural traditions from New Orleans.
Jon Batiste highlights his New Orleans roots, where cultural festivities like parades and jazz funerals play a significant role in community engagement and joy. He aims to inspire his generation to embrace celebration and happiness, suggesting that many young people lack these essential experiences in their lives.
In practice
Using this quote to inspire a community event aimed at celebrating local culture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
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