R&B Quotes

• R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Soul

• I grew up playing a lot of R&B music, and I wanted to do a very R&B type song. And I like the 'nah-nah-nahs'. I always wanted a song with those in.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Song
  • Wanted
  • To Do

• By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Country
  • Kind

• I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• R&B music became gigantic with people like Marvin Gaye and Barry White and Curtis Mayfield who became superstars. We tried to find a place where Jazz belonged because we didn't sell records.

  

  George Benson
  • People
  • Music
  • Jazz

• I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Rap

• From day one, we always admired male R&B groups. They would go onstage with no shirt on and baggy jeans, and girls would scream.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Groups
  • Admire
  • MAle

• I like to sing R&B slow jams. It's always been my thing.

  

  William Singe
  • Always
  • Thing
  • R&B

• We were 14, and we thought we just wanted to do straightforward R&B

  

  Keisha Buchanan
  • Straightforward
  • R&B

• I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

  

  Amber Denise Streeter
  • Emotion
  • Conversation
  • R&B

• The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Soul
  • Hip Hop
  • Blues echoes