Quotes by Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper

“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.”

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A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we’re getting. And we’re an inspiration to a lot of young people, because now there’s something new they can aim for that’s in their grasp. Because a lot of times when you attend a jazz college it’s all about the history, none of the teachers there are forward-thinking, for the most part, so they don’t teach you how to be yourself and embrace the music around you.

Being Yourself

Inspiration

Teacher

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

Musician

People

Trying

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.

Generations

Jazz

People

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

Art

Experiments

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. They tend to always be like “Let’s do a tribute to Miles Davis!” All the new albums are tributes to history. It becomes too much at a certain point, it leaves us waving like “Hello? I’m alive, I’m here!” You know? So I really do feel like it needs some spice, it needs to be relevant to today’s times, today’s people, today’s sound.

Creative

Jazz

People

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.

Flirting

People

Responsibility

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

People

Style

Thinking

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.

African American

People

Years

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or “what you’re doing isn’t jazz,” are just scared because they can’t do it. A lot of them just aren’t talented enough to do anything new, honestly. It’s the people who are talented enough and who have the open mind and who are forward-thinkers are the ones who are doing something new. You tend to hate on what you can’t produce.

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Thinking

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Iphone

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Quotes by Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper

“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.”

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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