Quotes by Gregory Porter - Page 2

The best career advice was to sing with an understanding and internalise the music - that was my mother's advice. Sing with intention, believe what it is you're saying, and think about it, before you sing it.
Gregory Porter /
Intention
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I heard Smokey Robinson was singing one of my songs on the radio the other day. Being in the presence of Mavis Staples, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott - Stevie Wonder joined me on stage recently. That blows me away.
Gregory Porter /
Blows
Stevie
Joined
Presence
Robinson
Scott
Smokey
Stevie Wonder
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All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.
Gregory Porter /
Fabric
Make Up
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On stage, it's very naked. There's a reason you shake your knees. You're very vulnerable, cos it's just you, your body is the instrument. But I always had confidence in my voice, if I had the right song, the right words to sing.
Gregory Porter /
Naked
Right Words
Instrument
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There were some things in my childhood I thought we'd put to sleep. The idea of one race's supremacy over another. I thought the issue of colour would be put to sleep by the time I had a son. And that's maybe why I had a kid so late.
Gregory Porter /
Colour
Supremacy
By The Time
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You could spend your time with your nose buried in a guidebook, but Amsterdam really is best explored on foot, so you can stumble upon the city's hidden gems. The architecture and the beauty of some of the buildings is also wonderful.
Gregory Porter /
Architecture
Amsterdam
Buried
Gems
Buildings
Explored
Foot
Hidden
Nose
Stumble
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I'm happiest in nature, in trees, rivers, streams, and I'm happiest around my kid - you know that's the funny thing, he is not always in the best of moods, but I am always happiest around him and in nature. Around my family is where I am happiest.
Gregory Porter /
Rivers
Streams
Funny Thing
Happiest
Moods
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I had a long-term relationship that failed. I had some health issues. When you dip down emotionally you can gather some things that help you when you do rise. If you go through it and you're OK, you can develop some scars that help you in the time after.
Gregory Porter /
Dip
Long Term
Emotionally
Gather
Scars
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My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I didn't want her to worry about my future. I wanted her to know I'd finish my degree. But she pushed me to follow my dream, even if it wasn't the safe option.
Gregory Porter /
Deathbed
Ill
Pursue
Option
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The nice thing about living in a semi-small town is that I can just go home and switch off. I go home now and I trim roses, rake leaves, wake up early in the morning and scare the raccoons off the lawn! It's kinda nice, that's the way I turn off, in Bakersfield, California.
Gregory Porter /
Scare
Go Home
Lawn
Leaves
Rake
Roses
Switch
Trim
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I've always thought that a Saturday morning at home should be education time. I mean fun education, for example learning to cook a dish or reading about something new. So I put on documentaries, get a bunch of magazines and newspapers and use the morning to make myself better.
Gregory Porter /
Documentaries
Newspapers
Saturday
Saturday Morning
Something New
Dish
For Example
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I lose my bags all the time. Sometimes for two months. One of the worst times was when I had come from France and I had packed cheese, because I was really crazy about camembert, so I have this really nice suit that stinks of camembert, no matter how many times I dry clean it.
Gregory Porter /
Bags
Cheese
Dry
How Many Times
Packed
Stinks
Suit
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My part of Brooklyn has always been a very warm neighbourhood, even before I had anything going on in the music industry. When I step out of my house to go for coffee on Saturday mornings, I might say hi to 20 people before I get to the cafe. I think they feel they own me, in a way.
Gregory Porter /
Brooklyn
Coffee
Music Industry
Saturday
Warm
Music Always Me
Music Me Step
Cafe
Hi
Mornings
Neighbourhood
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There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be careful - the black male voice in jazz, whatever you say, is an important voice, because there's a tradition of the music that should be touched on, there's a sound that should be touched on.
Gregory Porter /
Be Careful
Careful
Singers
Touched
Dismiss
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I think sometimes you can be around somebody and take in certain energy and read certain things and you don't know why your neck is stiff. But if you can recognise the negativity, once you identify it and you know what you are dealing with you can make a point to counteract it with a different energy.
Gregory Porter /
Negativity
Recognise
Neck
Stiff
Certain Things
Counteract
Dealing
Identify
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