Quotes About Soulful

she seemed to me an intriguing soul clothed

As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.

we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

If she was up at the cash register and he was behind his counter, he could still feel the invisible presence of her against him <...> —their inner selves brushing up against the other.

I love inspirational R&ampB, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

I really like R&B more than rap.

Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.

There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.

Some of that church music, it's like this pure, raw, unfiltered emotion.

Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.

I love Ray Charles.

When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

Al Green is something else.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

All music is the blues. All of it.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.