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Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Soul music is timeless.

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.