Robert Glasper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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. I feel like jazz needs a big-ass slap.
-- Robert Glasper

#Hurt #Bored #Mind
I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual, it's meditation, it's Buddhism, it's praying, it's all these things.
-- Robert Glasper

#Spiritual #Buddhism #Thinking
Youâ€™ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best.Â No one is born a hero, but things happen and your response makes you a hero.Â Itâ€™s instinctual, itâ€™s something that you may not even realize is there.
-- Robert Glasper

#Hero #Order #Different
"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."
-- Robert Glasper

#Song #People #Lasts
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 - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old,
-- Robert Glasper

#Media #Secret #Attention
It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me.
-- Robert Glasper

#Mother #Country #Morning
Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.
-- Robert Glasper

#Iphone #People #Long
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?
-- Robert Glasper

#People #Trying #Doe
I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.
-- Robert Glasper

#Years #People #African American
It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.
-- Robert Glasper

#Space #Hip Hop #Elements
If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.
-- Robert Glasper

#Singers #Interviews #Magazines
Instead of hearing, "Oh, he's good," I'd rather hear, "Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different."
-- Robert Glasper

#Feelings #Wow #Today
I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.
-- Robert Glasper

#Thinking #People #Style
I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.
-- Robert Glasper

#Responsibility #Flirting #People
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 some people just aren't going to feel that music.
-- Robert Glasper

#People #Generations #Honest
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
-- Robert Glasper

#Jazz #Modern #Certain
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 there.
-- Robert Glasper

#Hip Hop #Hips #Classic
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.
-- Robert Glasper

#Style #Crafts #Jazz
Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.
-- Robert Glasper

#Piano #People #Black
My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.
-- Robert Glasper

#Memories #Sleep #Firsts

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