Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot. — Gregory Porter Being Copy Share Image
This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel. — Gregory Porter Jazz Copy Share Image
I'm very thankful to San Diego for the musical opportunities it gave me. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life… — Gregory Porter Experience Copy Share Image
When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die. — Gregory Porter Blues Copy Share Image
It's been some surreal moments, you know from performing at Buckingham Palace to having dinner with Stevie Wonder, it's been an amazing… — Gregory Porter Amazing Copy Share Image
The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father. — Gregory Porter Father Copy Share Image
You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Waving to the Queen after singing Amazing Grace at Buckingham Palace, that was pretty cool. — Gregory Porter Amazing Copy Share Image
I was in rehab for nine months, and I needed some solace and distraction. I was in town one day and I… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
The voice is probably supposed to have some cracks and pops and some mistakes in it. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life… — Gregory Porter Jazz Copy Share Image
I lose my bags all the time. Sometimes for two months. One of the worst times was when I had come from… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I had a long-term relationship that failed. I had some health issues. When you dip down emotionally you can gather some things… — Gregory Porter Health Copy Share Image
What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're… — Gregory Porter Change Copy Share Image
If I can hear the music then no, I don't hit a wrong note. But if I can't hear the music because… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
'Take Me to the Alley' is about trying to uplift the lives of people who have been afflicted, maybe the homeless or… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful for the success of 'Take Me to the Alley.' The chart position it's reached around the world is very… — Gregory Porter Around the world Copy Share Image
The best career advice was to sing with an understanding and internalise the music - that was my mother's advice. Sing with… — Gregory Porter Advice Copy Share Image
My grandmother and my mother and my grandfather, their style of praying was - all day long, they would pray by singing… — Gregory Porter Day Copy Share Image
I was quite shy as a child. My sisters were the gang leaders, my brothers were the enforcers and I was a… — Gregory Porter Brothers Copy Share Image
Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument,… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five… — Gregory Porter Childhood Copy Share Image
I'm really just a singer that's trying to make some music that strikes to the heart. — Gregory Porter Heart Copy Share Image
I think every person who gets a football scholarship thinks the potential for great success in college - and maybe even a… — Gregory Porter Football Copy Share Image
The funny thing about nationalism is that there are two sides to it. Some parts of it are beautiful, but there's an… — Gregory Porter Beautiful Copy Share Image
The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
As well as having a really strong message, sometimes an artist needs to couple their sentiment with something that's soulful and groovy… — Gregory Porter Art Copy Share Image
What a Wonderful World' is a love song to nobody and everybody. I'm thinking about songs like that in my writing with… — Gregory Porter Love Copy Share Image
My sisters started to cook at nine and, being one of the youngest, I wanted in on it, too, so I began… — Gregory Porter Being Copy Share Image
And I've made it a choice on my records that sometimes I leave the breath or the trailing note that sometimes falls… — Gregory Porter Breath Copy Share Image
Even if you've being playing together for years, there'll always be something new. You're constantly back phrasing, front phrasing, singing faster, singing… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means. — Gregory Porter Circles Copy Share Image
I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
A Change Is Gonna Come' has always been a powerful song for me as it comes from a place of vulnerability. — Gregory Porter Change Copy Share Image
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is. — Gregory Porter Blues Copy Share Image
