Top 55 Soulful Quotes

I buy everything India Arie, just because she’s such a positive person, and I just love her music. Her music’s so soulful… I think Kanye West is a genius musically.

When I was briefed on the shots of ‘Kabhi Yaadon Mein,’ all I could think of was Darjeeling as the perfect scenery to shoot the soulful track and the entire team instantly agreed upon this.

It is good that people are experimenting with cinema. They are trying to do serious and soulful cinema but such films don’t stay in theatres for over a week. People ultimately go and watch Salman, Shah Rukh and Amir Khan films.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

It is a political thriller. It’s very action packed and it’s very exciting, but at the same time it’s a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They’re not separate, they’re completely dependent on one another.

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

I can sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it’s a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

You are on a soulful path that asks you to step into the greatest version of yourself. It is a sacred gift to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory, but each day.

There are so many forms of soul: David Bowie was soulful as hell; Johnny Cash was soulful as hell; you also have a Prince, a Stevie Wonder. I want to bring my perception of that and not live inside the box of, ‘This is the type of tracks you get,’ ‘This is the type of drums you get.’

Ultimately, you’re looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

The stuff that I dig, it’s usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they’re singing in, but I’m really communing with this person.

‘Nice Guys’ has darkness in it and parts that are kind of odd, but there are also parts where it’s heartfelt and soulful. You can switch back and forth.

The capitalist system is out of control. Everybody should be their own leader. In our own lives and families and neighbourhoods, we can find solutions to live together in a more soulful way. Everybody can do it. That’s what I try to do in my neighbourhood.

I definitely want to put out and album, kind of like a Kelly Clarkson vibe: a soulful voice with a pop rock background. I think it’s something that I’ve always loved and always loved to perform. So that’s the kind of album that I’d like to put out.

My personal music style is very Latin and very soulful. It’s dance meets hip-hop.

I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I’m in love with it and it’s home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder’s sound, and Donny Hathaway’s sound. It’s just part of who I am – I’m just a soulful kind of dude.

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

I love that we are bringing the flavors of Frontera to Los Angeles. I think we can only add to the booming food community in Los Angeles. Our food is gutsy and soulful.

George Jones is country soul. Once this kind of music sits in you and you take it all, it reaches down into your soul. George Jones to me was one of the most soulful singers of any genre. That drew me to his music. He knew how to present a song without really thinking about it.

A lot of Ennio Morricone’s music is just – it’s very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

I definitely grew up to Nina Simone and a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. And I loved Amy Winehouse. I loved that sort of soulful singer.

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

I always imagined having so much energy on stage, versus me being somewhat chill, soulful R&B.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it’s very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it’s the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

When I did the national anthem, I did a soulful, kind of gospel-y version, but it was controversial with the war veterans, just the people who wanted to hear it the old, clinical, atmospheric way, and I didn’t want to sing it like that.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they’re singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there’s a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that’s young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs.

I don’t like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I’m soulful, so what am I going to do?

‘Tangerine’ taught me that if you win an audience over with comedy, then hopefully have a soulful message at the same time.

I’ve written a soulful record but it’s informed by my sort of indie guitar past.

I’m the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you’re really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and the news was out that a lockdown would be imperative, Hrithik and I decided that staying together in the same home would be the more intelligent and soulful decision for our sons, and for us.

You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it’s lyrically, how it’s performed, or how it’s expressed.

John Legend is brilliant. I feel he may be my best collaborator when it comes to delivering that undeniable soulful sound, and he does it in such a classy way.

I want to do more urban R&B with a little bit of pop, but not much. I want to have that soulful kind of side of me come out.

Salman was an amazing human being. There are lot of things about him for years, but he’s one of the most genuine, helpful guys out there. There’s Salman Khan the superhero, and there’s that gentle guy who pulls out a charcoal pencil and comes up with some soulful, pure art pieces.

Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more soulful.

I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

I don’t want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.

I’d like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I’ll continue to make as I get older and they’ll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they’ll be a part of your dimension, as well.

I suppose I had a soulful quality. I was often cast as a wounded person, the ‘sensitive’ role.

I don’t just sing R&B: I’m able to sing pop and play with other sounds, but it’s all real soulful.

People who love R&B will love my music, people who love rock will love my music. It’s soulful, it’s pop. It’s a sound that relates to everyone.

But I’m really into old music – bluesy, soulful singers, like Etta James, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. I wouldn’t have minded being born in the 1960s!

I’m big fan of soulful music – classic rock with a folk-ish twist.

Dance numbers continue to be popular and I believe soulful and romantic tracks, too, will never go out of trend.

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.

I feel like Black Milk has found his way of putting his life into his music. I feel like, lyrically, he is a beast; a lot of people sleep on Black Milk. Black Milk is a monster. He from church. He from the street. He get down how I get down. He’s a soulful cat, and I love how he get down.