Soul music Quotes

“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”

“A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that contained within itself, like reverse fossils, everything that it was going to be. And, zigzagging through the expanding cloud, alive, that first wild live music. This had shape. It had spin. It had rhythm. It had a beat, and you could dance to it. Everything did.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Soul music is timeless.”

“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.”

“I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.”

“Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?”