Sevyn Streeter Quotes

R&B touches your heart.

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.

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.

What people would qualify as R&B is, for me, just soul. And I love honesty and soul and heavy, crunchy beats that move you and make you breathe a little bit faster.

Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That's what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.

I want to do a darker, pop soul kind of feel.

I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

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

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.