Quotes About Soulful

My sound is sort of India Arie meets Colbie Caillat. It's got a sweet-funk to it.

I was always going out to joints in Jersey that played country music. I was always around it. I liked the lyrics, the simple melodies, the soulful-ness.

What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.

'Is Qadar' is a beautiful melody that will resonate with people.

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

Blues is a matter of lower sidebands—you suck a clear note, on pitch, and then bend it lower with the muscles of your face.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

More than anything else, Zen represents a soulful approach to life in which one remains completely vulnerable and open to life, without God as a security blanket. There is no attempt to eliminate the basic insecurity or unpredictability of life or to solve the mysteries of existence.

We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.

He sort of breathes music.

My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.

books have souls

Just understand that the type of music that I make is something special.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

Listening to 'Songs in the Key of Life' always puts me in a good mood.

When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were to the soul.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

Age don't mean nothing. I'm an old soul.

The soul has no gender.