Philip Bailey Quotes

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I’ve been in the mix of great projects for such a long time, I know what it takes.

Philip Bailey

Music was the thing that caught my soul‘s attention from the earliest I can ever remember.

Philip Bailey

I really like electronic stuff. I was enamored with that whole genre of music.

Philip Bailey

The first time I heard a professional jazz quartet practicing in a house down the street it was almost like an out-of-body experience.

Philip Bailey

It’s really sad that you have more infomercials on TV to adopt a dog or a cat, or save a whale, then you do millions of flesh and blood human beings.

Philip Bailey

You can get jaded in the music business, but I have so much passion, and I try to do music with different people to ‘reset.’

Philip Bailey

Many times, periods of struggle are more blessed times.

Philip Bailey

It wasn’t an instant success. It wasn’t like I got into Earth, Wind & Fire and we stopped eating oatmeal and McDonald‘s. But it was definitely a clear path on the right direction to be my own man.

Philip Bailey

A lot of us have classical and jazz training, and it would be hard for us to work with a hip-hop artist who doesn’t know a lot about the technical aspects of music. But when you listen to Wyclef’s records, you hear bridges, chord changes and real structure. You can tell he has big ears.

Philip Bailey

I don’t want to give up pop music. It’s how I earn my living. I’ve got a family to take care of.

Philip Bailey

I’ll Uber to who has the best expressos, and I’ll take my iPad and go get a coffee… It’s really given the touring situation a whole other layer of enjoyment.

Philip Bailey

I was always mimicking high-register singers as a kid but I also studied operating as a baritone because I’m a natural baritone.

Philip Bailey

I wanted to do a project that was seamless and had all the ingredients from start to finish, from conception to mixing and mastering.

Philip Bailey

As young musicians, we cut our teeth on doing gigs at clubs and functions and colleges. That was really the proving ground for young musicians, learning songs, doing covers of different songs that were popular, learning different genres of music.

Philip Bailey

I’ve been really fortunate. I haven‘t had any issues with my voice.

Philip Bailey

I’m a strong believer in God. Always have been. I’ve always believed that he directed my path from the time I was a kid. He has always been my source of strength.

Philip Bailey

We never overthought the message aspect of Earth, Wind & Fire. We pretty much were all raised the same… We just wanted to contribute positivity in our music and humanity.

Philip Bailey

Just because you are having difficulty in a relationship doesn’t mean the love you feel in a relationship is not necessarily real. Or just because you actually can’t be together in a relationship, doesn’t necessarily mean the relationship is not real.

Philip Bailey

Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick, early Dionne Warwick.

Philip Bailey

When we came up, Clive Davis and other record execs would do anything to keep Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, even Johnny Mathis intact, because they wanted to keep alive a musical legacy. As a result, those artists were able to spend 30 to 40 years in the business and still make a living, still have a fan base.

Philip Bailey

In the group setting, I had a role to play, it was like being on a team. In a solo setting I’m forced to pull out all the stops.

Philip Bailey

The music has allowed me to see the world, make a lot of friends and learn a lot about life.

Philip Bailey

You have to refresh yourself with anything that you do all the time and re-tweak it, so the level of integrity associated with what people have learned to love is still the same. And so we don’t get bored and fall asleep.

Philip Bailey

Everything repeats itself. There ain’t but so many notes on the scale, there ain’t but so many chord changes, for real, and there ain’t but so many beats. So things come back to you a different way. Don’t matter what they call it.

Philip Bailey

I try to watch what I eat and not go overly crazy. I listen to my body, and am grateful for the blessings of God for my health and strength.

Philip Bailey

You just hope to do music that people will embrace… music that will be cutting edge and will be recognized.

Philip Bailey

I am who I am. I can’t do anything that doesn’t have nuances of all the music I’ve done in the past.

Philip Bailey

I’m real meticulous.

Philip Bailey

God had always been beckoning me. Early on as a kid, I just felt a strange and close connection with the Divine and then later on it became a more personal thing through my Christian witnesses, people in my life who got a chance to talk to me, bring me to the knowledge of Jesus.

Philip Bailey

Christian songs are more my personal testimony. I don’t say things I don’t believe in on secular records, but I am going for the hit record.

Philip Bailey

I try to have to different experiences with different people and energies and do things that will challenge me.

Philip Bailey

When we came up, groups and bands and performers were interested in being their own thing. They wanted to make sure that they had their own identity.

Philip Bailey

We weren’t that big fans of Disco.

Philip Bailey

There’s a side of me vocally that people didn’t know existed. I had to get it out of me.

Philip Bailey

The songs resonate with a positive hue. That’s a positive thing. People feel good singing ‘Sing a Song’ or ‘Shining Star.’

Philip Bailey

The music departments in the public school system gave me a really extraordinary foundation and music appreciation that I still draw from, even today.

Philip Bailey

I loved the title of ‘Blue in Green’ – as if the color blue was seeping into green, slowly changing it and creating a new color.

Philip Bailey

Sampling has definitely introduced the music to younger generations – helped the music evolve and kept it relevant.

Philip Bailey

It used to be that Denver was one of the most stressful cities to play because I was very nervous at coming home.

Philip Bailey

We all have things in which we look back and say, ‘If I had a chance to do it all over again, I wouldn’t do certain things.’

Philip Bailey

You’re always discovering other things you’re capable of doing if you’re out their singing. I just try to stay open to learning more things as the voice expands and grows.

Philip Bailey

There was never anything in particular that led me to music. Music is in my DNA.

Philip Bailey

One way or the other, keep it real. Know what’s good, what’s bad and what’s different.

Philip Bailey

At the height of Earth, Wind & Fire’s success, I felt an emptiness and void. I studied lots of philosophies and cults and I prayed to God. God made it plain that Jesus Christ died for my sins.

Philip Bailey

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