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
I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing. — Gregory Porter Blues 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
I think myself, Jose James, and Robert Glasper are expanding the language - really reminding people that the umbrella of jazz is… — Gregory Porter Expanding Copy Share Image
The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't… — Gregory Porter Big 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 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'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
You'd think we'd be exhausted by that rhetoric but you're still able to move people with fear and fright and lies that… — Gregory Porter Fear 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
There were some things in my childhood I thought we'd put to sleep. The idea of one race's supremacy over another. I… — 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
My part of Brooklyn has always been a very warm neighbourhood, even before I had anything going on in the music industry.… — Gregory Porter Brooklyn 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
The nice thing about living in a semi-small town is that I can just go home and switch off. I go home… — Gregory Porter Bakersfield Copy Share Image
All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up… — Gregory Porter America Copy Share Image
You could spend your time with your nose buried in a guidebook, but Amsterdam really is best explored on foot, so you… — Gregory Porter Amsterdam 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
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
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
I think sometimes you can be around somebody and take in certain energy and read certain things and you don't know why… — Gregory Porter Energy Copy Share Image
Gospel music was very prevalent in my house. My mother also loved Nat King Cole. That was some of the first music… — Gregory Porter Christianity Copy Share Image
