Quotes About Soulful

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

The John Handy Quintet was on the stereo and the song was "Naima," Handy's 1967 ode to John Coltrane.

The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.

That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.

You've got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal.

I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

I have always loved singing.

I love singing romantic numbers.

Lush green forests, chirping birds and the gentle beast... that's what the shoot for 'Haathi... ' is like every single day. A life-changing experience which not only is beautiful at the face of it but the soul too.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

Music has a way of getting under your skin.

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.

The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.

I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.

I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

music it says all the things that words alone can never say

To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.