Robert Glasper

When the music changes, so does the dance.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, ‘Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.

Jazz music has always been a place where anything is possible.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists… I’ve worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night, but differently each time.

My improvisations are a beguiling mixture of the vertical and the horizontal.

Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.

But I have always suspected that one could substitute the Minuet of Haydn’s 98th symphony for the Minuet in Haydn’s 99th symphony without sensing a serious lack of coherence in either work.

I’m going to make music out of whatever style it is, being true to the artform itself.

Stop before you’re done.

Difference between sex and love? Well, you’re not always sure you’re in love. But when you’re having sex, there’s really no mistaking it.

It’s spontaneity that has always characterized Jazz music’s finest improvisers.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.