Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues.

Quotes

 * Soul music … arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying.
 * Otis Redding biography at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


 * Soul is truth, … no matter where it comes from, no matter how it is presented.
 * Lou Rawls, Pop Chronicles: Show 52 - The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. [Part 8&#93;, interview recorded 10.12.1967.


 * God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. …  When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.
 * Little Richard, Pop Chronicles: Show 15 - The Soul Reformation I: A symposium on soul, interview recorded 1.2.1968.


 * There's not many Americans, certainly not many of the teenagers I met when I first went to America, knew anything about [rhythm & blues artists] at all. …  They do now, which is very groovy.
 * Mick Jagger, Pop Chronicles: Show 30 - The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers. (Part 4), recorded 2.6.1968.


 * But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.
 * Ray Charles on the Pop Chronicles: the Soul Reformation, interview recorded 3.8.1968.


 * Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
 * Ray Charles, Pop Chronicles: Show 55 - Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things, interview recorded 3.8.1968.


 * When I think of soul, I think of grease 'cause ain't nothin' no good without the grease.
 * Tina Turner, spoken interlude during Respect, live at Basin Street West, San Francisco, 22 February 1969, Video on YouTube


 * What they call rock and roll now is rhythm and blues: I've been playing for 15 years in New Orleans.
 * Fats Domino, The History of Rock and Roll, 1978, Hour 1: "The Birth of Rock & Roll".