Raphael Saadiq Quotes

My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.

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.

I'm using more energy than ever.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

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.

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

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.

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.

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.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

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

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.

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

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

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

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.

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.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

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.