Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes

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

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

I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.

I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.

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 soul music.

I want to reach back to when R&B meant something, to when it made impressions on people.

There are a lot of people, like myself, who love R&B and will always love R&B.

I have always loved soul singers.

The first artist I really loved was Stevie Wonder. That opened the doors to other soul singers like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin.

I would say our sound is soul pop.

I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.

There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.

Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.

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

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

I grew up listening to old soul.