Quotes About Soulful

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

Music is the soul of language.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

It's a holy city for music.

From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

All music is the blues. All of it.

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.