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…

- Robert Glasper

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

- Robert Glasper

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 …

- Robert Glasper

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 …

- Robert Glasper

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&…

- Robert Glasper

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 breedin…

- Robert Glasper

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,…

- Robert Glasper

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 respo…

- Robert Glasper

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

- Robert Glasper