Stephanie Mills Quotes

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

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

If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.

I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.

I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

I think we're just one of those bands that we know what we do best.

I really like R&B more than rap.

I'd say I am a nice cross of R&B and Pop.

I feel like pop and R&B are just my core.

The way I make music, I know what I'm doing, because I been doing this for so long. This is the only thing I'm good at.

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

I can count on less than five fingers the things I can do well, so I'm just going to stick to those. It's crazy; it's literally all I've ever wanted to do in life is sing and play and get out there and rock.

I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that are more rap have an R&B feel, so I'm with that.

Jagged Edge is one of my favorite R&B groups.

I think being in the world of R&B creates a sense of home, and I think it's important to have that sense of home and spirituality within your music.

I've always known the kind of songs I wanted to sing and play.