Robert Glasper Quotes

As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those '80s hair-band CDs behind - which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste.

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

I would say that I don't look for musical things.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.