I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I feel like everybody's life literally has a soundtrack because we love music so much, and there are so many songs that… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.'… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write a song first and then I'm like, "Oh this person will be great on this song." But there are… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. — Robert Glasper Copy Share
I got into hip-hop, but I still had appreciation for all types of music, so I was trained to have an open mind and… — Robert Glasper Copy Share
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market… — Robert Glasper Copy Share
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? — Robert Glasper Copy Share
That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and other times… — Robert Glasper Copy Share
I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it's better to do something that's inspired by them - a new work that's inspired by… — Robert Glasper Copy Share
You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them. — Robert Glasper Copy Share
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce. — Robert Glasper Copy Share
Sometimes I'll write a song first and then I'm like, "Oh this person will be great on this song." But there are some artists… — Robert Glasper Copy Share
Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres. — Robert Glasper Copy Share
For a while, R&B was going out of style. It was kind of getting kicked to the side. The first year the R&B Album… — Robert Glasper Copy Share
I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12. — Robert Glasper Copy Share
None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music… — Robert Glasper Copy Share
