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
I think myself, Jose James, and Robert Glasper are expanding the language - really reminding people that the umbrella of jazz is… — 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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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 5 years old when I first broke into my mother's records and played Nat King Cole, and sat alongside the… — 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
I'm really just a singer that's trying to make some music that strikes to the heart. — Gregory Porter Heart 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
