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Top 20 Robert Glasper Quotes (2024 Update)

Robert Glasper Quote: “Jazz is a state of mind. There’s no boundaries.”

1. “Jazz is a state of mind. There’s no boundaries.”

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “I think there’s good music out there. I just think that radio stations don’t play it.”

3. “I think there’s good music out there. I just think that radio stations don’t play it.”

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “You’ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best. No one is born a hero, but things happen and your response makes you a hero. It’s instinctual, it’s something that you may not even realize is there.”

4. “You’ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best. No one is born a hero, but things happen and your response makes you a hero. It’s instinctual, it’s something that you may not even realize is there.”

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.”

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

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “Experiment is actually doing the art. That’s the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.”

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

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “Instead of hearing, “Oh, he’s good,” I’d rather hear, “Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different.””

10. “Instead of hearing, “Oh, he’s good,” I’d rather hear, “Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different.””

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “My fan base is extremely random. It’s the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke’s Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she’s coming to my show.”

13. “My fan base is extremely random. It’s the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke’s Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she’s coming to my show.”

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.”

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

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.”

18. “My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.”

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Robert Glasper Quote: “I’m not really married to the craft of jazz – I’m married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.”

20. “I’m not really married to the craft of jazz – I’m married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.”

— Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper Quote: “A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?”

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

— Robert Glasper

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