Quotes About Artistry

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

I want everybody to know my name because I feel like I give so much of my heart and my soul in my music.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It's not going anywhere.

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

If you are a soul singer, you are a soul singer. If you are a heavy metal singer, then you are a heavy metal singer. What's color got to do with it? I don't go around thinking, 'I sing soul music and I'm white.' I just sing the way I feel.

I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36.

You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

I enjoy singing soulful melodies because they add that extra zing to your performance.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.

Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.

John Legend is brilliant. I feel he may be my best collaborator when it comes to delivering that undeniable soulful sound, and he does it in such a classy way.

Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more soulful.

I don't just sing R&B: I'm able to sing pop and play with other sounds, but it's all real soulful.

Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.

For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

Everything about the movie 'Dope' is real artistry, and everybody put their full hearts and souls into it. It's a passion project; it's not one of those things everybody got paid a million dollars to do. Everybody on there wanted to do it. Everybody there believed in the project, and we just went for it. We all love each other.

I can't really describe my sound.

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.