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" Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of Brazilian music. "
Dianne Reeves
Album
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Music
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm always inspired to push forward. "
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Push
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" If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own. "
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" People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the music. "
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" When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this is what I wanted to do. "
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" My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do. "
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" I feel proud of my journey. I wouldn't change it. "
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" My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit. "
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Mother
" My musical selections are a reflection of how I grew up. Because, back then, you could see Miles Davis and Ravi Shankar on the same stage. And nobody thought anything of it, other than the fact that it was great music. "
Dianne Reeves
Reflection
Great
Music
" Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful. "
Dianne Reeves
Life
Beautiful
Sadness
" When I sing a song, I want someone to recognize 'Now that's Dianne singing that song.' "
Dianne Reeves
Sing
Now
Singing
" Each project that you do is something you believe in for that moment in time. "
Dianne Reeves
Believe
You
Time
" Your voice is not your instrument. Your voice is the character that you build, your innermost feelings, the things that you want to say, and your instrument is the vehicle that you use to carry the message. "
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You
Voice
Say
" When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach. "
Dianne Reeves
Loved
Unique
You
" I have one closet that's just shoes. The woman go, 'Amen,' and the men go, 'Oh my God.' It's color-coordinated from the ceiling to the floor, from evening to casual. "
Dianne Reeves
Evening
Men
Shoes
" My musicians know all of my music, and so that makes for something different. "
Dianne Reeves
Different
Musicians
Music
" The music we do is weaved together through stories and life experiences. When people come to hear us, I hope they are are uplifted and that we give them a lot to take home. "
Dianne Reeves
Home
Hope
Life
" Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974. "
Dianne Reeves
Man
Incredible
Around
" And I've found that, you know, the world of music is so vast and so broad, but at the same time, it's easy to find parts of yourself in places that you wouldn't even think that you were, you know? "
Dianne Reeves
World
Music
Think
" I've always liked a lot of different kinds of music. "
Dianne Reeves
Always
Music
Lot
" Being from Colorado is, to me, very, very special. I'm just very thankful to be here. I'm also thankful to be a part of the history of this state. "
Dianne Reeves
Me
Thankful
Special
" One of the things that I love about Sarah Vaughan is that she was always very current. "
Dianne Reeves
She
Things
Very
" 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. "
Dianne Reeves
Life
Creative
Doing
" 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. "
Dianne Reeves
Together
Life
Creativity
" I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life. "
Dianne Reeves
Life
Much
Who
" I remember my grandmother used to always say, 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket.' But when I realized that music was inside of me, I decided I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. "
Dianne Reeves
Me
Say
Grandmother
" Lizz Wright, we call her lovingly 'Amazing Grace.' She has a folk and gospel kind of approach to the music, and she writes beautiful lyrics and songs. She's like this balm that is really full and very rich and deep. "
Dianne Reeves
Music
Amazing
Beautiful
" I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music. "
Dianne Reeves
People
Think
Love
" Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there were no teachers to teach it, so I came up with all kinds of different ways to develop the sound of my voice. "
Dianne Reeves
Voice
Teachers
Foundation