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
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
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
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
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
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 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 1960s 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
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
This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel. — Gregory Porter Jazz 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
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
My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of… — Gregory Porter Church 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 Architecture 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
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
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
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
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
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'm really just a singer that's trying to make some music that strikes to the heart. — Gregory Porter Heart 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 I think Copy Share Image
