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“I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.”
“My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games and being appointed the creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic. So I've just decided I'll go with my flow and be very prepared.”
“I've always had really wonderful people around me. But early on, I remember I would walk into a session or go do something with some musicians, and they viewed me, basically, as their chick singer.”
“Go out into the world with your passion and love for what you do, and just never give up.”
“When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul. Every song was like a movie, a unique and very different vignette.”
“The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that.”
“The thing that I tell young people is everybody is unique in their approach to the music, and you have to protect that.”
“Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.”
“I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.”
“I've dated a few musicians in my life, and it's kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together.”
“I loved singing something like 'I've Got My Eye On You' when it's really about the FBI. It turns a love song into something else!”
“I didn't learn the word 'genre' until way, way late - I mean, like, in the '80s.”
“I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts and your way for painting your musical picture.”
“I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing.”
“The music industry is changing. You only hear a sprinkling of big names, but there are a lot of really wonderful young musicians with great voices and lyrical content who have refined their sound. They're up in here, so don't think they're not. There's this wealth of talent below the surface that's ready to explode.”
“There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you're connected by a creative desire.”
“I come from a family of musicians.”
“I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things that really have influenced and addressed your life.”
“I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and they work for me.”