I'm very thankful to San Diego for the musical opportunities it gave me. — Gregory Porter 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
Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot. — Gregory Porter Being 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
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
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
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
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
The voice is probably supposed to have some cracks and pops and some mistakes in it. — Gregory Porter 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'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 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
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'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 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 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 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
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
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
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
Waving to the Queen after singing Amazing Grace at Buckingham Palace, that was pretty cool. — Gregory Porter Amazing 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
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
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
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
Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there. — Gregory Porter 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
Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together… — Gregory Porter 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 Copy Share Image
