Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I believe that music should really be without boundaries. "

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 never wanted to do anything else, really. I left home at an early age trying to find my voice, my niche in music. "

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

" 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. "

" Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom. "

" 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. "

" When I moved to Los Angeles, right away I met all kinds of musicians. "

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

" Anything that had to do with music is what I wanted to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 come from a family of musicians. "

" 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.' "

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

" A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be. I just want to have the opportunity to be able to bring that to some young people. "

" Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility. "

" Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records. "

" Some people think that all you do is record, and it's not the case. You take on other projects as well, and you have to live a little bit because it inspires your work. "

" 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'm always inspired to push forward. "

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

" My mother was really amazing and left me with a whole lot of treasures. I miss her terribly. "

" 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. "