Top 44 Soul Music Quotes

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.

I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age – my mom was a soul singer.

I always loved soul music. My dad was a very religious guy, and we would listen to a lot of gospel and soul music. My college girlfriend introduced me to musicals. She listened to them, so that was the first time I heard ‘Dream Girls.’

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.

People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n’ roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

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.

I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I’m taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban ‘beat’ poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

On my block, we grew up like family. Summer times, man, psshh, we in the back in the alley or in the front on the block. Somebody has some music playing, and nine times out of ten, it’s soul music. We got whatever we drinking that day, we got some food, we probably even grilling. It’s just a good time.

I’ve always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.

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.

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores – lots of soul music.

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It’s like a release, especially when I’m singing soul music.

We’re Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

The one thing about Essex is that there’s a lot of people there that are into their soul music. And I’m talking ’80s and ’70s soul music, that was a big part of my childhood, there was Al Green, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, people like that.

R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele – you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music – it’s clear in her writing that that’s where it comes from.

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.’

My mom had a produce business in in Oxnard, and we used to take these long trips to talk to farmers and different distributors. She’d take us with her after picking us up from school, and she’d be blasting all this old soul music and R&B. I knew all those O’Jays songs before I knew Snoop or Dre or Tupac.

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It’s music I’d want to sample if I were a rapper.

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.

We got really excited by Motown and early ’60s soul music that was fun sounding.

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That’s what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

Soul music is true to its name. It’s music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people’s spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

When I first got into the music scene, I was inspired by different songwriters. I like to dress from the ’50s and ’60s. I like to paint a picture of that era through my music and clothes. I am inspired by a whole a lot of things, from doo-wop to gospel and soul music.

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.

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

I think there’s a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there’s some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn’t be a void for those people, as well.

Soul music is timeless.

I want to speak in the tradition of rhythm and blues and soul music, but also push how it’s dressed and how it’s delivered to the audience. And hopefully that gets embraced by as many people as possible, but the goal isn’t necessarily to speak to everyone. The goal is to get it out as exact as it is in my head.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz… all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

There’s a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

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.

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 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!

You can’t get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.

People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That’s only in their reality. It’s not true. To me, Adele is R&B. Bruno Mars is R&B. It’s just good songwriting and songs. That is going to last.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level – and that’s never going to get lost.

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.

I consider what I do soul music. It’s music that is concerned with the soul.