Robert Glasper Quotes

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.

My mum loves jazz, and together we listen to loads of Chet Baker back home.

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on jazz.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

I have a secret love of jazz.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.