Robert Palmer Quotes

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

Robert Palmer

• Music
• Age
• Soul
• Parents
• Black
• Rock
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  Robert Palmer
  • Music
  • Age
  • Soul