A Change Is Gonna Come’ has always been a powerful song for me as it comes from a place of vulnerability. Gregory Porter Read Quote
I think every person who gets a football scholarship thinks the potential for great success in college – and maybe even a career in the NFL – is possible. Gregory Porter Read Quote
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. Gregory Porter Read Quote
My grandmother and my mother and my grandfather, their style of praying was – all day long, they would pray by singing and humming. Gregory Porter Read Quote
I think part of my job as a songwriter is to go back in my memory and pull up those pains for other people because somebody else is going to come along who didn’t have a good issue with their father. Gregory Porter Read Quote
A professional music career goes in starts and stops. Around 2000 I was doing a Broadway show and that was some real good energy. Gregory Porter Read Quote
I heard Smokey Robinson was singing one of my songs on the radio the other day. Being in the presence of Mavis Staples, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott – Stevie Wonder joined me on stage recently. That blows me away. Gregory Porter Read Quote
I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind the beat, playing with notes and harmonies. Gregory Porter Read Quote
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. Gregory Porter Read Quote
