Robert Glasper Quotes

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.

I want to create songs that will last across time.

I really love that song. I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about. So when you play it, it takes people back to a certain place. That's what I wanted for 'Torn.'

The most important thing is to make quality music that will last.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.