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I love soul music.
Soul music is timeless.
They love soul music in the U.K.
When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.
I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.
For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.
Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.
I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul.
I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding.
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.
I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.
You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
Really, what I'm trying to do is make soul music, but I don't even think of it as a genre. It's more of a feeling.
The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36.
Music is a part of someone's soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don't want anything to do with it.
The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.
When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one.
Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That's what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.
Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away.
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.
Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
I have a wide range of influences - I mean, first of all, I am a big, big fan of old soul music. Then, there's people like Donny Hathaway, Elton John... a diverse array of music.
I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.
To me, soul music is anything that is made from the heart, and therefore moves the listener; it's not overly self-aware, and leaves room for the listener to make their own conclusions.
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so I try to write country songs. But really, all good music is just soul music.
If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.
You don't hear that much about me being a white and singing soul music in England, but I get the feeling that in America it's really a big thing. It's like, 'God, look at the color of her skin.'
A lot of R&B cats are doing a lot of auto-tune. Tyrese went back to the basics. I love classic soul music and Ginuwine. Ginuwine and Usher laid the foundation back in the '90s. There's no one doing that anymore.
I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I'd go to new romantic clubs and then go home and listen to soul music. I was sort of ashamed of listening to disco and soul music!