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

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

Robert Glasper

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

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

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

Robert Glasper

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.

Robert Glasper

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.

Robert Glasper

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Glasper