Attention Quote by Kaytranada

For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.

— Devendra Banhart

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I grew up with this rough-around-the-edges, unpolished kind of vibe my whole life, and then my mum listened to, like, Top 20 kind of…

— G Flip

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung

— Gavin DeGraw

When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I…

— Alice Smith

I was so wrapped up in the whole R&B, soul-pop world, that was all I listened to when I first started writing music.

— Ruel

It's kind of hard to describe my sound because I feel like it's different. I got some R&B, neo-soul, afrobeats; just a lot of…

— Caleb McLaughlin

Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is…

— Maxwell

Music was the thing that caught my soul's attention from the earliest I can ever remember.

— Philip Bailey

My music has evolved to reflect that multigendered, multiracial, multigenre music. Whether I realized it before or not, I'm most influenced by that rock…

— Ricky Reed

I released a song called 'Let Em Know' off SoundCloud, and some fan commented on it and was like, 'Trap soul movement,' and I…

— Bryson Tiller

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

— Damien Chazelle