Robert Glasper Quotes

I think that music is a lifestyle that you sort of intravenously plug into and unplug from when you do and don't need it. Some people live it 10 hours a day, some on weekends. It's no more important or non-important than that.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives, and there's music that's unique to that movie.

Whether its active rock, pop, country, hip-hop - I love music; it's therapeutic to me.

I'm just so grateful to be a part of BABYMETAL because without this opportunity, I wouldn't have had a deeper connection to music!

It feels like I've been singing since I was born, and I have so many great memories with my family and friends centred around music.

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

I love music, and I can't imagine life without music.

When it comes to music, I'm such a fan of music and it makes me feel so much.

God-dang-it, country music is my heart.

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

The fans own the records and listen to them and love them. It becomes the soundtrack to some part of their lives, and we don't control that. To me, that's what's exciting about what we do.

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.

R&B is my home. It's who I am. It's who I've been. It's the first genre I fell in love with. It's the reason why I've been able to do other genres of music.