I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the st…

- Hamid Drake

If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empt…

- Hamid Drake

The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small.

- Hamid Drake

When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruct…

- Hamid Drake

I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine s…

- Hamid Drake

The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either …

- Hamid Drake

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't …

- Hamid Drake

The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.

- Hamid Drake

If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially …

- Hamid Drake