howardtuniverse

[howardtuniverse]

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

~ Roberta Flack (1937-2025)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #SingerSongwriter #Musician #Teacher #5xGrammyWinner #2HonoraryDoctorates #WomenSongwritersHOFer

Happy Black History Month!!

We lost too many jewels this past year! Their impacts will forever remain with us.

[howardtuniverse]

I believe soul music is music that will always be played. It’s just who’s gonna play it? Soul music has a certain thing to it that reaches inside you. That’s why it’s called soul music and that’s where it gets it’s name from, so it’s gonna always be there. I just wish more people were producing it. I’m gonna always produce it because that’s what I am. I’m a soul/R&B artist so it’s not gonna go anywhere as long as I’m here.

~ Chris Jasper (1951-2025)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #Musician #Composer #RecordProducer #RockAndRollHOFer #VocalGroupHOFer #GrammyWinner

[howardtuniverse]

Earlier, I told him, 'You never knew music', and I thought, ‘How is he going to be a musician when he never knew music?,' But when I heard the music behind his voice, it sounded beautiful and I was proud of him. I thought, '‘'Okay, this is the beginning of his life. Maybe he had something — maybe he knew something that I never knew.'

~ Voletta Wallace (1953-2025)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #MotherOfAnIcon #BreastCancerSurvivor

[howardtuniverse]

It was because I wasn’t like the other guys — Joe Tex, James Brown and the Isley's — jumping around. I just used to stand there and sing and Georgie Woods said I was cool. Hence, the Iceman.

~ Jerry Butler Jr. (1939-2025)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #SingerSongwriter #Producer #Musician #Politician #TheIceman #RockAndRollHOFer #RhythmAndBluesHOFer

[howardtuniverse]

My diabetes numbers been high... It runs rampant with black people and what it does is it starts deteriorating your body... I've been diagnosed with diabetes forever. It's hereditary...This is why my kids get mad because I be telling them I'm gonna live. Yall want me to die and not enjoy life. I'm gonna enjoy life...I gotta live.

~ Irv Gotti (1970-2025)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #RecordProducer #RecordExec #TVProducer

[howardtuniverse]

~ DJ UNK (1981-2025)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP

[howardtuniverse]

It's not the hook, its the artist that sells the song. Sorry, but that's the way it is, young people, you sell the song. You make people believe in the song and what you're singing about and it just sticks. You don't perform the song for yourself, you sing it to please your paying audience out there.

~ Sam Moore (1935-2025)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #Rock&RollHOFer #GrammyHOFer #R&BHOFer #SoulMan

[howardtuniverse]

What does tickle my thought process is, I’ve never felt in my entire life there is an announcer who can bring someone to the TV set to watch a game that that viewer wasn’t already going to watch. And I believe the only thing a broadcaster can do is chase people away.

~ Greg Gumbel (1946-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #SportscastingPioneer #FirstBlackSuperbowlAnnouncer #3xEmmyWinner

[howardtuniverse]

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

~ Ricky Henderson (1958-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #10xMLBAllstar #2xMLBChamp #MVP #HOFer #12xStolenBaseChamp #SingleSeasonStealsChamp #AllTimeStealsChamp

[howardtuniverse]

I've done over 125 films in 8 or 9 different countries and I forget a lot of them... They ask me what's your greatest movie. The real answer to that is, the next one I do.

~ Art Evans (1942-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP

[howardtuniverse]

And especially those of you who write. You cannot be afraid and you cannot be worried about who does and who doesn't like what you do. Because there's always going to be somebody who doesn't like it. If nobody doesn't like it there's something wrong with it...I mean think about Miles Davis, think about Charlie Parker. People said 'oh I don't understand what they're doing'. They were only geniuses. If everybody understands you, you gotta have an IQ of 3 or 4.

~ Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #Activist #Professor #7xNAACPImageAwardee

[howardtuniverse]

Most people knew me as a pretty good basketball player during the time I was playing but very few people knew I stuttered. In the 800 games I played for the Bulls, 90 to 95 percent of the time I was either the leading scorer, the leading rebounder or the lead assist guy. I was never once voted the star of the game. I was never interviewed on the radio or TV to any length.

~ Bob Love (1942-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #3xNBAAllstar

[howardtuniverse]

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

~ Tony Todd (1954-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #Candyman

[howardtuniverse]

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

~ Quincy Jones (1933-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #EGOT #28xGrammyWinner #Rock&RollHOFer #6HonoraryDoctorates #KennedyCenterHonoree #GOAT

[howardtuniverse]

I truly believe this, God gives everybody a talent. Now when you find that talent if you figure out how to use it, it's your gift. Now the reason why its called a gift is because it's special. That gift should be able to take care of you for the rest of your life, and everybody has one. Its just that most people don't get to tap into it.

~ Dj Clark Kent (1966-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #Producer #RecordExec

[howardtuniverse]

I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.

~ Cissy Houston (1933-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #2xGrammyWinner #RhythmAndBluesHOFer #NewJerseyHOFer #MotherOfAnIcon

[howardtuniverse]

They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.

~ John Amos (1939-2024)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP #JamesEvans #KuntaKinte #CleoMcDowell