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" I choose things by how they resonate in my heart. "
Resonate
Things
How
" I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written. "
Think
Because
Written
" If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool. "
Me
Driving
Drive
" I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying. "
True
Come
Dream
" I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. "
Jazz Record
First
Record
" I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts. "
Say
Concerts
Heart
" I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge. "
Challenge
Challenges
Think
" I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. "
I Think
Jazz
Think
" It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. "
Sense
Jazz
Cerebral
" I've always loved jazz. "
Always
Loved
Jazz
" I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey. "
Jazz
Did
Journey
" I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life. "
Me
Music
Road
" I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. "
Standards
Make
Jazz
" I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me. "
People
Feel
Head
" Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record. "
Who
Jazz
Radio
" My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. "
Grandmother
Songs
Wrote
" Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning. "
Singer
Been
Beginning
" The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. "
Doing
Women
September
" There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument. "
Everything
Voice
Space
" Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. "
Time
Push
Late
" Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute. "
Beautiful
Me
Listening
" When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else. "
Body
Jazz
Me
" You know, I'm pretty much an open book. "
You
Pretty
Book
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