Little Louie Vega Quotes

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.

I'm an R&B and pop singer as well as a jazzer.

My favourite artist is Beyonce. I also like Jasmine Sullivan.

I want to be what Kenny G. and Carlos Santana were, but for this day and age.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly.

I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I'm a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz - Glenn Fredly, Diah Lestari - so 80% jazz, 20% mixed with everything - disco, hip hop.

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don't listen to is country and heavy metal. I love Marvin Gaye, John Legend, Al Green, Fat Freddys Drop, Sade, Grace Jones, Bazoo Bijou, Prince, John Lennon, London Grammar, Daft Punk, Dr John, Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Gotye, and on it goes.

I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.

There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it went and where it went, at first I didn't really want to do pop music. I was a little bit more into jazz and R&B.

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.

When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson.

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

I like the fact that I have the power to convey a lot of emotion through my songs. I like to channel that when I'm singing. I think it's just a mix of R&B, soul, but then I kind of move more into the pop world and electronic pop and stuff like that.