Robert Glasper Quotes

I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that only I can make - it feels good. It's nice when you can find a sound that only you can make. No one else can make 'Cosmogramma.' No one else can make 'Until the Quiet Comes.'

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I got my own sound in Atlanta because I don't listen to anybody's music. When you listen to people's music, you start to say stuff they say as an artist because that's what you've been listening to. Me, I don't listen to anybody. I support, but I don't listen, because I don't want to run with someone style. I do my own thing.

I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

My films, no one else will do.

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.