But sometimes that title ‘jazz’ can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be. Gregory Porter Read Quote
I was 5 years old when I first broke into my mother’s records and played Nat King Cole, and sat alongside the stereo and listened to Nat’s music. Gregory Porter Read Quote
Nat King Cole’s lyrics were speaking to me, almost like fatherly advice, when I was listening to him alongside the console stereo player. So that music and that influence comes out of me. Gregory Porter Read Quote
You’d think we’d be exhausted by that rhetoric but you’re still able to move people with fear and fright and lies that somebody’s going to take your place, that in order for someone to rise, you have to fall. Gregory Porter Read Quote
There were some things in my childhood I thought we’d put to sleep. The idea of one race’s supremacy over another. I thought the issue of colour would be put to sleep by the time I had a son. And that’s maybe why I had a kid so late. Gregory Porter Read Quote
Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it’s still there. Gregory Porter Read Quote
I lose my bags all the time. Sometimes for two months. One of the worst times was when I had come from France and I had packed cheese, because I was really crazy about camembert, so I have this really nice suit that stinks of camembert, no matter how many times I dry clean it. Gregory Porter Read Quote
My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I didn’t want her to worry about my future. I wanted her to know I’d finish my degree. But she pushed me to follow my dream, even if it wasn’t the safe option. Gregory Porter Read Quote
I was quite shy as a child. My sisters were the gang leaders, my brothers were the enforcers and I was a tag-a-long. Gregory Porter Read Quote
My sisters started to cook at nine and, being one of the youngest, I wanted in on it, too, so I began at six on potato-peeling duty as french fries were my thing. Gregory Porter Read Quote
