Amos Lee Quotes

R&B is my home. It's who I am. It's who I've been. It's the first genre I fell in love with. It's the reason why I've been able to do other genres of music.

I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

Ultimately it's just music - whether I'm catering to the Bollywood audience or the indie audience. I just approach every type of music the way I am, and how my personality is.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

The music should speak for itself, and hopefully it will.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

I realize that R&B is what I do best, and I'm comfortable with that.