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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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" 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. "

Dianne Reeves

My Soul

Unique

Truth

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dianne Reeves

People

Remember

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

" 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. "

Dianne Reeves

Singing

Feel

" If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own. "

Dianne Reeves

Good

Song

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

" I've always liked a lot of different kinds of music. "

" I had a few celebrity crushes when I was growing up, including Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations. And I loved Marvin Gaye - I thought he was everything and instantly fell for his voice. "

Dianne Reeves

Loved

Thought

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

" 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. "

" Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work. "

" 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. "

" My records are one thing. My live performances are something totally different because they're very improvised performances. "

" I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things. "

" I come from a family of musicians. "

" Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality. "

" I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and the music was in alphabetical order. I hadn't heard of that word 'genre.' "

Dianne Reeves

Early

You

" I like coming home and sharing things I've tasted or seen. "

Dianne Reeves

Things

Sharing

" Each project that you do is something you believe in for that moment in time. "

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

" When I was in junior high school, I knew I really wanted to sing. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "