Tom Verlaine Quotes

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

In general, I love dance-pop music with some soul and a dash of R&B.

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

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

I'm not a big disco guy.

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.

When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.

I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.

I really like R&B more than rap.

Souljazz doesn't reinvent soul, jazz or the fusion thereof, but it plays all of the above with the passion that drove its forefathers.

I grew up on R&B and soul, so that backbone is always there.

I love soul music.

There are a lot of people, like myself, who love R&B and will always love R&B.

'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.

The best music to dance to is my music! Haha! I say anything that speaks to you. I personally enjoy dancing to hip-hop, R&B music, EDM/trap music.

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