Gregory Porter Quotes

I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

Songs, for me, are notes from the heart.

The blues singers were talking about everyday life, and they pushed a button.

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.

Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

The B-52s, you know, our songs are about volcanoes or lobsters. Cindy and I sing them like our lives depend on them. I feel very emotional when I'm singing 'Rock Lobster,' but I've wanted to sing more about my personal experience.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.