Trai Byers Quotes

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

I'm obsessed with Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse, Etta James. I'm really into blues and R&B type of stuff, '90s hip-hop; that's my jam.

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

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

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.

There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it went and where it went, at first I didn't really want to do pop music. I was a little bit more into jazz and R&B.

I like old Ashanti and stuff like that. I like a lot of old R&B music.

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.

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

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

I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.

I prefer black music in general.

Soul music is timeless.

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 still love listening to the old stuff - Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, you know. I stick to the old school stuff, but I love Mark Ronson. I love John Legend.

I like African music but also R&B, rap, alternative rock, and classic.

I'm not exclusively into R&B. I like Usher.

I have a wide range of influences - I mean, first of all, I am a big, big fan of old soul music. Then, there's people like Donny Hathaway, Elton John... a diverse array of music.

I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.

For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a mixture of all those guys and Duke Ellington.

I really like R&B more than rap.