Soulful Music Quotes

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

For me, music is for the soul - no matter whether the song is composed by me or by someone else.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It's not going anywhere.

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it has to have happened at some point. So every single lyric that you hear comes from some kind of story that I've come across in my life. I like to think that that maybe helps me mean it a bit more and if you don't mean it, it ceases to be soul music.

Selena is a classic and timeless singer, and she really doesn't need an introduction. Her music is always good for the soul.

Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.

I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.

When I listen to Amy Winehouse, I believe that her heart and soul is in the music, or if I listen to other British artists like Duffy or Estelle. The aesthetic of it is different, and it's my point of view. It's not anything formulaic.

I think there's something amazing about British soul.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

I really think only Erykah Badu can be Erykah Badu.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

Blues is a very physical music.

I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.

I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.