Away Quote by Daryl Hall

I was about to leave L.A. because I didn't find enough soul in the musicians. Back in Virginia, it was just leaking soul everywhere.

— Masego

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

— Clarence Clemons

I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we…

— Paul Weller

In my neighborhood, it was all jazz for a while. Then we grew up into R&B and soul.

— Don Cornelius

I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by…

— Bob Dylan

When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.

— Tamron Hall

I grew up listening to old soul

— Erykah Badu

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but…

— Jon Landau

The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.

— Jim James

I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly.…

— Daughn Gibson

When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.

— Todd Rundgren