Adrian Younge Quotes

I'll say one of my all time favorite albums would have to be Willie Hutch, 'The Mack.'

I'm a huge fan of the '70s. I'm obsessed with the music of that time.

I think Marvin Gaye is one of the greatest American music icons. His 'What's Going On' is as fresh today as when he did it.

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

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

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

I'm not a big disco guy.

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.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

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

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' slows the world down.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

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

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

I love soul music.