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You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

~Robert Glasper

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I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.

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Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience.

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When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson.

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A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

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I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

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I feel like everybody's life literally has a soundtrack because we love music so much, and there are so many songs that people love.

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I got into hip-hop, but I still had appreciation for all types of music, so I was trained to have an open mind and to always go with the flow.

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None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music so you could go check out Sam Cooke.

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Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 5th, 1978

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