A biography for Dianne Reeveshasn’t been written yet.
“I never wanted to do anything else, really. I left home at an early age trying to find my voice, my niche in music.”
“The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy.”
“When I was in junior high school, I knew I really wanted to sing.”
“Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.”
“I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but it will come out.”
“I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place.”
“Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.”
“Anything that had to do with music is what I wanted to do.”
“My demographic is very broad. Once they come, they had an idea about jazz, and then they hear me, and they come back with sisters, brothers, and kids. My audience looks like America to me.”
“I did a project called 'Sing The Truth,' which was a lot of fun. It started out being a celebration of the music of Nina Simone, and it was me and Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo.”
“I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience.”
“If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own.”
“My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.”
“I believe that music should really be without boundaries.”
“My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.”
“I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car.”
“In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists; they didn't want any singers. But I made my way in, and I remember the conductor of the band wrote a lot of arrangements and asked me what I wanted to sing.”
“I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.”
“I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.”
“I feel proud of my journey. I wouldn't change it.”