Gregory Porter Quotes

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I think myself, Jose James, and Robert Glasper are expanding the language – really reminding people that the umbrella of jazz is large and all-encompassing.

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I love wandering around the vintage shops.

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As well as having a really strong message, sometimes an artist needs to couple their sentiment with something that’s soulful and groovy to listen to.

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When there’s an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that’s negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.

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I’m really just a singer that’s trying to make some music that strikes to the heart.

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My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I didn’t want her to worry about my future. I wanted her to know I’d finish my degree. But she pushed me to follow my dream, even if it wasn’t the safe option.

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I had a long-term relationship that failed. I had some health issues. When you dip down emotionally you can gather some things that help you when you do rise. If you go through it and you’re OK, you can develop some scars that help you in the time after.

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There’s a lot of female singers and I don’t want to dismiss them, but the male – and I have to be careful – the black male voice in jazz, whatever you say, is an important voice, because there’s a tradition of the music that should be touched on, there’s a sound that should be touched on.

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The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don’t like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don’t like vocalists, try guitar.

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I was 5 years old when I first broke into my mother’s records and played Nat King Cole, and sat alongside the stereo and listened to Nat’s music.

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On stage, it’s very naked. There’s a reason you shake your knees. You’re very vulnerable, cos it’s just you, your body is the instrument. But I always had confidence in my voice, if I had the right song, the right words to sing.

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The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

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My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in my family.

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The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart.

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It’s been some surreal moments, you know from performing at Buckingham Palace to having dinner with Stevie Wonder, it’s been an amazing ride.

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What makes jazz different is that you can’t predict it, it’s all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you’re going to hear there’ll be a left turn, a jazz musician will change it up.

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‘Take Me to the Alley‘ is about trying to uplift the lives of people who have been afflicted, maybe the homeless or somebody with an illness, or maybe they’re refugees.

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I’m very grateful for the success of ‘Take Me to the Alley.’ The chart position it’s reached around the world is very exciting, and its success is an example of the acceptance of my music. I am very thankful.

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My grandmother and my mother and my grandfather, their style of praying was – all day long, they would pray by singing and humming.

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Even if you’ve being playing together for years, there’ll always be something new. You’re constantly back phrasing, front phrasing, singing faster, singing slower.

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I was quite shy as a child. My sisters were the gang leaders, my brothers were the enforcers and I was a tag-a-long.

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There were some things in my childhood I thought we’d put to sleep. The idea of one race‘s supremacy over another. I thought the issue of colour would be put to sleep by the time I had a son. And that’s maybe why I had a kid so late.

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All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture – art and music – includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

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I’m always lobbying for the irrepressible strength of love.

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The voice is probably supposed to have some cracks and pops and some mistakes in it.

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My sisters started to cook at nine and, being one of the youngest, I wanted in on it, too, so I began at six on potato-peeling duty as french fries were my thing.

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And I’ve made it a choice on my records that sometimes I leave the breath or the trailing note that sometimes falls into a flat or a sharp.

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My part of Brooklyn has always been a very warm neighbourhood, even before I had anything going on in the music industry. When I step out of my house to go for coffee on Saturday mornings, I might say hi to 20 people before I get to the cafe. I think they feel they own me, in a way.

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