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Jazz Quotes by Robert Glasper
- 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 wake you up.…
- 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 -…
- There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
- I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most…
- I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.
- I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on, and it must…
- If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in…
More Jazz Quotes
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach