Soul Singer Quotes

I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch.

I'd say I got into Marvin Gaye properly in college.

When I was a kid this is what I was listening to on my car radio - Lowell Fulsom singing 'Tramp.'

My favorite soul artist, I would have to say D'Angelo. That's R&B, soul. Trap artist, I would probably have to say...Young Thug.

I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Adele was introduced to me by a guitarist named Mike Hartnett that plays for a band called Rehab. We was just riding around, and he was like, 'Man have you heard this soul singer Adele?' and I was like 'Nah!' and we just rode to the whole CD, and it got to 'Hometown Glory,' and I was like, 'Man I have to sample that!'

In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.

If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?

I would have to say Sam Cooke is the one I admired most. His artistry and vocal, just the way he did it.

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.

I never walk into a room and assume everyone knows who Raheem DeVaughn is.

I didn't want to be a soul singer.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.

I'll say one of my all time favorite albums would have to be Willie Hutch, 'The Mack.'

I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year... Him being one of those artists that I have really sampled so much and just been so inspired by... You know, he is the original ‘soul man.’

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

Stevie Wonder is extraordinary.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

A soul singer is always singing to their crowd. They're always singing about their woes to you. And I really appreciate that when a singer is making you feel... when they're directing it at me. When they're including me.

You don't hear that much about me being a white and singing soul music in England, but I get the feeling that in America it's really a big thing. It's like, 'God, look at the color of her skin.'