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" When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on. "

Robert Glasper

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Music

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

Robert Glasper

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Church

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

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

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

Robert Glasper

Jazz

Craft

" It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that. "

" I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much. "

" You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played 'Gingerbread Boy' 'cos he and Jimmy Heath were cool, you know? That's how the culture goes. "

" 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

Age

Jazz

" Honestly, recording with Faith Evans blew me away. "

" 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 live and breathe, and continue to grow, and continue to change, and continue to mesh with other music - all that kind of stuff. Jazz can be on the playground too, you know. "

" 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. "

" Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience. "

" When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences. "

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

Robert Glasper

Modern

Jazz

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

" People don't know that the very reason the police were made was to oversee slaves; they would be called overseers, and if a slave got out of line or tried to break away and escape, these were the people to hold them in and bring them back. "

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

" I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do. "

Robert Glasper

Rapper

Aesthetic

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

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

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

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

" I got into hip-hop, but I still had appreciation for all types of music, so I was trained to have an open mind and to always go with the flow. "

" None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music so you could go check out Sam Cooke. "

" If you got every single artist in the world in one room, and you put Miles on one side and Prince on the other side, those are the two people that everybody would be trying to get a glimpse of. And Michael Jackson would be the other one. "

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

" For a while, R&B was going out of style. It was kind of getting kicked to the side. The first year the R&B Album of the Year didn't get on the TV portion of the Grammys is when I got nominated. "

" 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 of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that. "

Robert Glasper

Chance

Jazz

" 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. "