The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

- Justin Adams

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim…

- Justin Adams

I think it's quite jarring and exciting when you see someone in the thrall of being completely transported by the music they're sharing with you.

- Justin Adams

The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to s…

- Justin Adams

I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and get throu…

- Justin Adams

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

- Justin Adams

In some traditional African dances, people wear masks in order to become the embodiments of particular spirits. I have heard that they often cover th…

- Justin Adams

I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a re…

- Justin Adams

In Western classical music the idea of holiness, purity, perfection, and total beauty is expressed through clarity of sound - a bell-like sound. Obvi…

- Justin Adams