Tori Kelly Quotes

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I do. If soul counts as a genre, I would also say that's the common thread throughout everything I do. There's rock and soul influence, too. The pop element comes at the very end and making the song catchy so people will remember it.

There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.

I love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

I am a pop and R&B singer. I'm not necessarily an Indian singer or musician. I sing in English, and the music I do blends hip hop, pop, R&B, and soul.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

I was singing totally jazz then, but when I heard the Beatles and heard the gospel influence and everything, I just said, 'I can make jazz with R&B.'

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things.

Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

Beyonce, Otis Redding, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and Adele are a few of my favorites.

I consider myself more of a rock 'n' roll fiddler.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

To me, rock and roll is not a perfect science.

I love music - anything that catches my ears - but it's more about lots of rock 'n' roll and really funky electronic music.

If I do something related to English music, it will be definitely in the direction of R&B and pop.

I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.