Chet Faker Quotes

Since I was growing up, I liked love songs - Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke. That was the kind of songs getting the girls dancing.

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

I grew up listening to old soul.

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

I started listening to old school R&B artists like Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, and Donny Hathaway when I was in 6th grade.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

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

I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.

I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don't listen to is country and heavy metal. I love Marvin Gaye, John Legend, Al Green, Fat Freddys Drop, Sade, Grace Jones, Bazoo Bijou, Prince, John Lennon, London Grammar, Daft Punk, Dr John, Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Gotye, and on it goes.

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

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 played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that.

We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.

I listen to a lot of Solange. I love old-school as well.

My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.

Everybody's family plays them music, and my grandma used to play a lot of old-school stuff, like Ron Isley and Gladys Knight. Earth, Wind & Fire is the one I started paying attention to. My uncle introduced me to R&B, like Dru Hill, 112 and all those dudes.

The one thing about Essex is that there's a lot of people there that are into their soul music. And I'm talking '80s and '70s soul music, that was a big part of my childhood, there was Al Green, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, people like that.

I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

There was so much great music around in the '60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter!