Robert Glasper

“Trends of the times be damned.”

— Robert Glasper

Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.

— Robert Glasper

'Black Radio' was pretty much a jam session.

— Robert Glasper

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

— Robert Glasper

Honestly, recording with Faith Evans blew me away.

— Robert Glasper

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

— Robert Glasper

My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that's why I can sleep through anything.

— Robert Glasper

Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting.

— Robert Glasper

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

— Robert Glasper

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

— Robert Glasper

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

— Robert Glasper

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

— Robert Glasper

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do…

— Robert Glasper

For a while, R&B was going out of style. It was kind of getting kicked to the side. The first year the…

— Robert Glasper

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic…

— Robert Glasper

Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long.…

— Robert Glasper

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

People don't know that the very reason the police were made was to oversee slaves; they would be called overseers, and if…

— Robert Glasper

I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on…

— Robert Glasper

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

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

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

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

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

It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club…

— Robert Glasper

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

I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on,…

— Robert Glasper

It's funny, now that we have Twitter and Facebook and stuff, you can really see how you affect fans. Before all that,…

— Robert Glasper

Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet,…

— Robert Glasper

Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.

— Robert Glasper

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

— Robert Glasper

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

— Robert Glasper

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

— Robert Glasper

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

— Robert Glasper

You have to go with the times. You're going to get left behind if you don't.

— Robert Glasper

Instead of hearing, "Oh, he's good," I'd rather hear, "Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different."

— Robert Glasper

My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.

— Robert Glasper

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

— Robert Glasper

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

— Robert Glasper