20 Quotes by Eric Benet

If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.

I think the one thing for me that's been working is just authenticity.

I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.

I think the one thing that never goes away is soul and emotion and vulnerability and finding your strength in our vulnerability. I think when I apply all of that to music, it somehow just ends up being classic. It's the sum of a bunch of things that never go away.

I just try and get better and better at me with every album.

What's working for me is like when I go into the studio, I'm trying to get goosebumps.

I'm trying to laugh uncontrollably with whoever I'm making a song with because whatever we just listened to that we just came up with is so dope. I'm chasing that feeling in the studio, not like a trend or what's hot on the radio at the moment. It just seems like the more I do that, the better I get at what I do. I'm going to keep doing that.

For those who have never seen me live, you kinda need to check me out.

I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.