Quotes About Soul

We're in soul business here.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

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.

I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I'd go to new romantic clubs and then go home and listen to soul music. I was sort of ashamed of listening to disco and soul music!

I love soul music.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

Music is a part of someone's soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don't want anything to do with it.

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

Really, what I'm trying to do is make soul music, but I don't even think of it as a genre. It's more of a feeling.

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.

I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That's only in their reality. It's not true. To me, Adele is R&B. Bruno Mars is R&B. It's just good songwriting and songs. That is going to last.

People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.

When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one.

We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding.

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.