Latest Raphael Saadiq Quotes from Interviews

• I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Writing, Light, Shine On

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Shoes, Long, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

  Raphael Saadiq

  People, Return, Harmony

  Source: www.djbooth.net

• I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Thinking, Soul, Want

  Source: www.djbooth.net

• Kids are probably frustrated and egos are too much involved and kids don't know how to get together and be kids and start a group and it's kind of sad because I feel like if you come out with three or four people in the beginning, you can be protected and everybody can shield each other. Before you get out there by yourself and get all these people coming at you. I just think it's not really there.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: thesource.com

• I would love to go to smaller places in the UK such as Manchester and Liverpool and play there. It's much more intimate; you got to get down and gritty, getting closer to the people.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Play, People, Down And

  Source: www.contactmusic.com

• My UK fans are quite similar to the States but they pay much more attention to the details, that I like. They listen, party, and dance moving through the changing moods of the music with me.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Moving, Party, Details

  Source: www.contactmusic.com

• I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Games, Trying, Albums

  Source: www.contactmusic.com

• When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Pay, Rewards

  Source: www.contactmusic.com

• I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Path, Produce, Pops

  Source: www.contactmusic.com

• The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Rewards, Medal

  Source: www.contactmusic.com