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Jon Batiste on the art of pushing your limits

ReThinking

CHAPTER

Music and Comedy Are Like Cousins in the Family

Comedian Stephen Colbert says music and comedy are like cousins in the family tree. The medium of comedy has room for music, but it's almost just punctuation. In musician, structure, everything is about structure and timing. And i always try to teach that's the only thing. Play the moment. That's it. If you do that, then it has the opportunity of being great. You can't make it be anything more and less than what it is.

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