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" You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them. "
Robert Glasper
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" I want to remind people that black music is amazing. And there are all forms of it that we've forgotten, you know? Rock music is black music! Don't forget that's what it is. "
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" Honestly, recording with Faith Evans blew me away. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting. "
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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. "
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" There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. "
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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. "
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Up
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" 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. "
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" I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church. "
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Grew
" I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it's better to do something that's inspired by them - a new work that's inspired by them - versus another person saying they redid your song. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce. "
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" I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style. "
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People
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" When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson. "
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Listening
Were
Friends
" 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. "
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Flow
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Music
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it. "
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" A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? "
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" I feel like everybody's life literally has a soundtrack because we love music so much, and there are so many songs that people love. "
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" 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. "
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" I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn't be honest with myself; I'd be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out. "
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" Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do. "
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Want
" 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. "
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" Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres. "
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