Olly Alexander 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'm definitely inspired by Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Lauryn Hill.

I love soul music.

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.

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.

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

Soul music is timeless.

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

I have always loved soul singers.

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

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.

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

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

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 listened to everything. To the early Motown groups - the Four Tops and the Temptations - to Johnny Mathis, Gloria Lynne - my sisters loved her. Sarah Vaughan. Everything.

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 listening to the greats of the '80s and, thanks to my parents, the '70s - the Doobie Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie.

I don't know exactly what genre to put it in, I just know that I grew up listening to a lot of soul music - Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, and Whitney Houston. I was inspired by all these great big voices, and I try to do music that's timeless.

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

With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

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

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.