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. Robert Glasper Read Quote
Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don’t play anything that has any kind of integrity to it. Robert Glasper Read 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. Robert Glasper Read Quote
My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that’s why I can sleep through anything. Robert Glasper Read Quote
Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres. Robert Glasper Read Quote
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. Robert Glasper Read Quote
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. Robert Glasper Read Quote
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. Robert Glasper Read Quote
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. Robert Glasper Read Quote
