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" Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful. "

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" One of the things that I love about Sarah Vaughan is that she was always very current. "

" Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components. "

" My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit. "

" Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I worked with Clark Terry, that was the beginning of school for me, and Harry Belafonte and Sergio Mendes, they were all my universities. "

" The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound. "

" I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing. "

" Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage. "

" I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want to do. "

" 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. "

" Go out into the world with your passion and love for what you do, and just never give up. "

" The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy. "

" Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession. "

" My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing. "

" I've always respected and taken care of my instrument. "

" When I sing a song, I want someone to recognize 'Now that's Dianne singing that song.' "

" My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far. "

" I didn't learn the word 'genre' until way, way late - I mean, like, in the '80s. "

" I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place. "

" 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. "

" My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I knew what the story behind 'Dreams' was. It was about Stevie Knicks' relationship. But when I sing it, it's about sharing some sage advice with somebody. "

" Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful. "

" I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely. "

" It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're unified by the rhythm underneath and the way that we decided to arrange and play them. "

" I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference. "

" The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents. "

" I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller. "