I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.

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.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.