Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you — a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you. … It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.

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As quoted in Pearls of Wisdom (1987) by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, p. 47

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What is soul? It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

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