Philip Bailey

“It used to be that Denver was one of the most stressful cities to play because I was very nervous at coming home.”

“It's important to refresh the way of thinking and doing things musically. You can get so stuck in what you've done in the past that you can't move on into the future.”

“I'm real meticulous.”

“Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick, early Dionne Warwick.”

“Music was the thing that caught my soul's attention from the earliest I can ever remember.”

“We weren't that big fans of Disco.”

“Fellowshipping really is about loving all people of like mind, affirming your faith in that relationship.”

“When I was 9 years old, growing up in Denver in the 1960s, I'd spend hours listening to my friend's mother's record collection.”

“There's a side of me vocally that people didn't know existed. I had to get it out of me.”

“I'm really glad we came up when we did. When we got started, the record companies were concerned with building careers. They made sure you could put on a live show before you put a record out. And if your first album sold 100,000 to 200,000 copies, they were happy, because they figured you had your foot in the door on a way to a long career.”

“At an early age, I understood music... the rhyme schemes, melodies and harmonies.”

“You're always discovering other things you're capable of doing if you're out their singing. I just try to stay open to learning more things as the voice expands and grows.”

“Being a musician was not my choice; it was really a God-ordained thing, so I'm still passionately chasing after the pursuit of that whole journey and musical expression and discovery.”

“I'll Uber to who has the best expressos, and I'll take my iPad and go get a coffee... It's really given the touring situation a whole other layer of enjoyment.”

“As you live you evolve and grow and discover, and I don't like to look at anything as an arrival. I always like to look at it as a discovery and an evolutionary process.”

“Well, I can't sing like James Brown and stuff and go do a gig. I'm not a roughhouse singer.”

“I work out several days a week at the gym to be able to exist and move properly.”

“In the group setting, I had a role to play, it was like being on a team. In a solo setting I'm forced to pull out all the stops.”

“I call Earth, Wind & Fire my day job and my solo career my night gig.”

“Life can be very challenging. But I've always believed that God is always in control, even when you are going through challenges. Nothing catches him by surprise. It's all part of his plan. I rely on that even during the toughest of times.”