Top 100 Quotes About R&b
#1. 'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go Crazy' was number one on R&B stations, and there's nothing that's been like that on radio since.
Prince
#2. I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
Ashthon Jones
#3. In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort of have this fusion/soul/R&B/folk music kind of thing. We've been keeping it low-key and opening for some friends.
Jake Epstein
#4. I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
Bonnie Raitt
#5. Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
B.R. Ambedkar
#6. I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.
David Sanborn
#7. In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but you don't get a lot of that coming out of the more pop and rock side of things.
Alan Light
#8. I have remembered things you said long before I ever met you.
B.R. Sanders
#9. Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'
Jerry Leiber
#10. Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.
Keith Sweat
#11. Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!
Kelis
#12. I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.
Nayvadius Cash
#13. I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.
Kelis
#14. I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!
Amy Weber
#15. Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B.R. Ambedkar
#16. When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
Yash Chopra
#17. Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.
Lionel Richie
#18. There is a Difference Between Merely Living and Living Worthily
B.R. Ambedkar
#19. Loss is a peculiar thing. It drives creativity, and it fuels the dark emotions that inspire a designer or writer or musician to bring forth a creative child whole-cloth. It is loss that compels creativity.
R.B. Chesterton
#20. As a sign of utmost gratitude for his contributions to the Indian society in restoring equal rights of the citizens, I confer him (B.R. Ambedkar) the title "Martin Luther King Jr. of India.
Abhijit Naskar
#21. President Gordon B. Hinckley spoke of its relationship to other events in world history: When all is said and done, when all of history is examined, when the deepest depths of the human mind have been explored, there is nothing so wonderful, so majestic, so tremendous as this act of grace.
Tad R. Callister
#22. When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.
Harvey Mason Jr.
#23. It is not enough to be electors only.
It is necessary to be law-makers;
otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.
B.R. Ambedkar
#24. I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs.
Taryn Manning
#25. I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names ... And I'm not dogging them. I'm not slandering them. I'm not saying they are bad musicians. But how can Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake win for R&B and funk? They are pop singers.
Sharon Jones
#26. Chris Columbus selected him specifically for the part
R.B. Grimm
#27. When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to put me. The music wasn't 'black black' sounding. It wasn't R&B; it wasn't straight up hip-hop, although obviously in that dimension and world.
Neneh Cherry
#28. I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.
John Oates
#29. I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.
Morris Chestnut
#30. Don't make fun of me," Lan snapped. "I'm illiterate, not stupid! I know there's no B in subtle!
R. Lee Smith
#31. I think it's hard to put a finger on my music. My music has always been an amalgamation of everything I listen to, which includes everything and anything under the sun. Hip-hop to country to R&B to pop, all the things I'm inspired by find a way into what I do.
Travie McCoy
#32. My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
Alison Moyet
#33. The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#34. The press is dying to paint me as now trying to undo the New Deal. I remind them I voted for F.D.R. 4 times. I'm trying to undo the "Great Society." It was L.B.J.'s war on poverty that led to our present mess.
Ronald Reagan
#35. I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
Philip Kerr
#36. I don't remember saying nothing about me crossing over. I did R&B collaborations but I never tried to do no pop stuff.
Big Daddy Kane
#37. The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
B.R. Ambedkar
#38. That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.
Dave Koz
#39. People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.
Elvis Costello
#40. There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it went and where it went, at first I didn't really want to do pop music. I was a little bit more into jazz and R&B.
Frankie Valli
#41. Well, I am not sure of when my album will be released but my music has a lot of different sounds. I'm a hip-hop/R&B girl at heart, but I love pop music as well, and I even have an affinity for country music. So I would say my music might have something for everyone.
Zendaya
#42. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.
Trey Songz
#43. You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.
Harry Connick Jr.
#44. See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.
Blake Anderson
#45. How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.
T.K. Naliaka
#46. The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
B.R. Ambedkar
#47. The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.
B.R. Ambedkar
#48. The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'
Chris Pratt
#49. Democracy is not merely a form of Government.
It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.
B.R. Ambedkar
#50. My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.
Tinashe
#52. I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
Miguel
#53. I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really hands on with Morgan & Andrew while writing and producing the record.
Nomi Ruiz
#54. I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.
Al Jarreau
#55. The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
B.R. Ambedkar
#56. I'm an old soul. I like the Nat King Cole; Sam Cooke is my favorite singer of all time. But I'm into neo-soul; I'm into R&B. Some of the modern stuff appeals to me, but most of it comes from an older time.
Trai Byers
#57. Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers,
but by relentless struggle ... Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.
B.R. Ambedkar
#58. I've really enjoyed B.R.P.D. since its first days when Guy Davis was an artist on the title, and if anyone is looking for an end of the world Cthulhu apocalypse title, Mignola and Arcudi and the artists who work the title do a fantastic job.
Ben Peek
#59. I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B.R. Ambedkar
#60. So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.
B.J. The Chicago Kid
#61. All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock ... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.
Jay-Z
#62. What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
B.R. Ambedkar
#63. I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'
Jamie Foxx
#64. Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.
Diplo
#65. Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
B.R. Ambedkar
#66. My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
John Oates
#67. Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
B. R. Hayden
#68. I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
FKA Twigs
#69. I'm always doubting because I've been told so much that, you're not the right look or you're not the right sound, and, you know, whether I do jazz or R&B there are always complaints.
Ledisi
#70. An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
B.R. Ambedkar
#71. No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
B.R. Ambedkar
#72. There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening.
Lotic
#73. The earth's orbit didn't slow down. The world didn't stop falling.
Slowly, very, very slowly, Michael started to sink to his knees.
B.R. Collins
#74. Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
Jon Landau
#75. I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.
Sevyn Streeter
#76. I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.
Pia Toscano
#77. So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
B.R. Ambedkar
#78. Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.
B.R. Ambedkar
#79. I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.
Elle King
#80. Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
B.R. Ambedkar
#81. For now, upon this dirty track, I wait to start the next attack. Look out boys, I'm coming back!
Nick R.B. Tingley
#82. I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
Patrick Stump
#83. Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.
Ledisi
#85. Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.
Chuck Eddy
#86. I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
Willie Nelson
#87. A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B.R. Ambedkar
#88. A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial;
free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection;
and faithful to the truth, which is the mother of history the preserver of great actions, the enemy of oblivion, the witness of the past, the director of the future.
B.R. Ambedkar
#89. i doesn't matter whr u r n whr u hv 2 b, all that matter izz how u r n how u havs 2 b!!!..
Alisha
#90. I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.
Bella Thorne
#91. No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.
Frank Ocean
#92. I still love the music and it's still plays a part in what I do but I never 'turned my back' on garage. I was always doing R&B with, say, Walking Away. It's wonderful that I was classed as the king of 2-step and a pioneer, but it's had its turn, I think.
Craig David
#93. I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.
Nathaniel Rateliff
#94. I love music; I was never the type of singer to say, "This is my specific genre, or I only sing R&B music." I feel like as a singer, you should be limitless and you shouldn't be stuck in a box.
Heather Headley
#95. I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
Lance Gross
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R.J. Scott
#98. But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.
Jennifer Lopez
#99. You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
R. Kelly
#100. On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes. But are these actually truths? Are our eyes really feasting upon light? Or just patches of grey?
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
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