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
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
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
The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart. — Gregory Porter 1960s 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
I lose my bags all the time. Sometimes for two months. One of the worst times was when I had come from… — Gregory Porter Bags 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
You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with… — Gregory Porter Bakersfield 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 Homeless 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
Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument,… — Gregory Porter About 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 Back Copy Share Image
I think part of my job as a songwriter is to go back in my memory and pull up those pains for… — Gregory Porter Father Copy Share Image
There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be… — Gregory Porter Jazz 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
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
Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot. — Gregory Porter Being 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
Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there. — Gregory Porter Less Copy Share Image
A professional music career goes in starts and stops. Around 2000 I was doing a Broadway show and that was some real… — Gregory Porter Broadway Copy Share Image
My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of… — Gregory Porter Catholic 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 can be a bit nerdy so I need a good, clearly marked map, as you can miss out on some of… — Gregory Porter Amsterdam 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 happiest in nature, in trees, rivers, streams, and I'm happiest around my kid - you know that's the funny thing, he… — Gregory Porter Best Copy Share Image
I've always thought that a Saturday morning at home should be education time. I mean fun education, for example learning to cook… — Gregory Porter Education Copy Share Image
I heard Smokey Robinson was singing one of my songs on the radio the other day. Being in the presence of Mavis… — Gregory Porter Day Copy Share Image
I was 5 years old when I first broke into my mother's records and played Nat King Cole, and sat alongside the… — Gregory Porter First Copy Share Image
Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together… — Gregory Porter Away Copy Share Image
I like to absorb the atmosphere and explore wherever I'm working or visiting, so I can't say there's any type of place… — Gregory Porter Atmosphere Copy Share Image
Nat King Cole's lyrics were speaking to me, almost like fatherly advice, when I was listening to him alongside the console stereo… — Gregory Porter Advice Copy Share Image
My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was… — Gregory Porter Courage Copy Share Image
On stage, it's very naked. There's a reason you shake your knees. You're very vulnerable, cos it's just you, your body is… — Gregory Porter Body Copy Share Image
San Diego is where I really started to get my legs, musically. — Gregory Porter Legs Copy Share Image
I'm very thankful to San Diego for the musical opportunities it gave me. — Gregory Porter Me Copy Share Image
