You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music. — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding. — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination. — Plato Copy Share Image
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I was on a soul music journey and I thought it was so great that the Teskey Brothers were bringing that classic… — G Flip Copy Share Image
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar. — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
Soul music is just your soul saying its hungry for sound. as it always is... — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking… — India Arie Copy Share Image
It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No… — Mandisa Copy Share Image
I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or… — Adele Copy Share Image
The Lifted Crew, I think that they're a great band that plays great soul music. They may have studied a lot of… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
Hip hop music and soul music have been the two main motivators for me musically. The music I make is hip hop… — Musiq Copy Share Image
A few years ago I had a weird relationship with performing live. I didn't enjoy it as much because the nerves took… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
“I call the high and light aspects of my being SPIRIT and the dark and heavy aspects SOUL. Soul is at home… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Susan stared at him. The blue glow in Death’s eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze… — Terry Pratchett - Soul Music Copy Share Image
I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing tonight?' I'm sitting home watching it. But… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I love the way I make hip-hop and I refuse to make pop-rap. I don't refuse to make mainstream music, which is… — Ben Drew Copy Share Image
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is… — Usher Copy Share Image
I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But… — Maxwell Copy Share Image
One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
I say that I do soul, R&B music. I have so many influences, from Billie Holiday, Nina Simone to Stevie Wonder and… — Goapele Copy Share Image
Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I'd go to new romantic clubs… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That's what I try… — Goapele Copy Share Image
Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Few things in life can spark and radiate strong pleasure, intense feelings, and touch the main nerve of the soul... music is… — Ellis Hadlock Copy Share Image
Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new… — Don Cornelius Copy Share Image
They think that just because they talk about the real shit, they dont have to make no hot music! Its a lose-lose… — 9th Wonder Copy Share Image
I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner… — Howe Gelb Copy Share Image
I always loved soul music. My dad was a very religious guy, and we would listen to a lot of gospel and… — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
Other [artists'] music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music… — Ben Rector Copy Share Image
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a… — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
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