Robert Glasper Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• 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

• 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, Majority

  "Glasper revels in success of hybrid jazz album". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 06, 2012.

• 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

  "Young Pianist Ready to Be Jazz Ambassador". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. March 20, 2007.

• 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.

  Robert Glasper

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Country, Mother, Morning

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

  Robert Glasper

  Thinking, People, Style

  "Listening To Rap With Robert Glasper". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. August 26, 2010.

• 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.

  Robert Glasper

  Being Yourself, Teacher, Inspiration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• "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

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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

  "Listening To Rap With Robert Glasper". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. August 26, 2010.

• I think we're an inspiration to young people, to know they can be honest and not run away from influences that are not jazz. We're definitely breeding a new wave of jazz, for real.

  Robert Glasper

  Running, Real, Inspiration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Robert Glasper

  People, Trying, Musician

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a jazz pianist, even to be a bad jazz pianist, you have to be pretty good.

  Robert Glasper

  Mean, Skills, Jazz

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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, Bars

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Robert Glasper

  Mind, Jazz, Boundaries

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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, Jazz

• 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 be able to pull it all in and lay it down like a track.

  Robert Glasper

  Crazy, Track, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Robert Glasper

  Jazz, Modern, Certain

• 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.

  Robert Glasper

  People, Creative, Jazz

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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, Jazz

• Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet, when it gets to the '70s it started being jazz fusion where you had more electronic stuff happening, then in the '80s they started trying to bring back the acoustic stuff, like Branford Marsalis and the Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton sextet. It started dying down from there. Miles was still around in the '80s and he was still being creative; he was playing Michael Jackson songs and changing sounds, but a lot of people were still trying to regurgitate the old stuff.

  Robert Glasper

  Song, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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