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Leon Bridges Quotes

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.

– Leon Bridges

I think I’ll always live in Fort Worth. It’s great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

– Leon Bridges

I like to groove a little bit!

– Leon Bridges

I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.

– Leon Bridges

I’ve always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes.

– Leon Bridges

I’ve always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.

– Leon Bridges

I’ve just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

– Leon Bridges

When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.

– Leon Bridges

I’m totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

– Leon Bridges

People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.

– Leon Bridges

I’m very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, ‘Go ahead and quit your job.’ I told them, ‘As long as I don’t have to wash dishes anymore, I’m good.’

– Leon Bridges

My mom is a very religious woman. So when I began recording music, I was afraid she wouldn’t accept it. But when I played her a song, she loved it.

– Leon Bridges

I was washing dishes at Del Frisco’s Grille and busing tables at a Tex-Mex place and writing songs the whole time. I did a lot of my writing at those jobs, thinking up melodies in my head.

– Leon Bridges

The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, ‘Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.’

– Leon Bridges

One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.

– Leon Bridges

In the beginning, I was so inspired by the music. I had the option to make something modern with classic undertones, but I wanted to make something that was exactly like that old sound.

– Leon Bridges

My mom is very excited for the fact that I got signed and, of course, being a mom, she’s going to be a little worried.

– Leon Bridges

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

– Leon Bridges

I don’t live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard that Kendrick was a fan of my music. Hopefully there’s a door open for us to do music together. He’s one of my favorite artists. I love Jazmine Sullivan, Lianne la Havas, Usher, Ginuwine. It goes further than classic soul.

– Leon Bridges

I write based on how I feel.

– Leon Bridges

I shop at thrift stores and consignment shoppes. I wear my clothes as is, and maybe get them dry cleaned whenever possible.

– Leon Bridges

I want people to see an honesty within me. I’m not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.

– Leon Bridges

I knew I had a gift. I wanted the world to hear my music, and I wanted it to be my career, but I didn’t know how to go about it.

– Leon Bridges

When I first got into the music scene, I was inspired by different songwriters. I like to dress from the ’50s and ’60s. I like to paint a picture of that era through my music and clothes. I am inspired by a whole a lot of things, from doo-wop to gospel and soul music.

– Leon Bridges

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

– Leon Bridges

My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, ‘Woo woo!’ I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.

– Leon Bridges

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn’t record it! I love them too much to do that.

– Leon Bridges

I’m coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that’s why I really connected to Sam Cooke, because he was just very smooth. It’s not like the James Brown types, which is all great stuff, but he was totally set apart from those guys.

– Leon Bridges

When I started writing the music, I wanted everything to be consistent from the way I dressed to the way I presented myself online. I wanted everything to match what I was doing on stage.

– Leon Bridges

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn’t know how I was gonna go about it.

– Leon Bridges

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