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" 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. "

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

Dianne Reeves

You

Art

Story

" 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. "

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

" I love New York City because there's something to do 24/7, something that will make you see things in a whole different light. Like they say, it's the city that never sleeps. "

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

" I grew up with great mentors in my life who helped me become the singer I am today. "

Dianne Reeves

Today

My Life

" I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about Sarah Vaughan. You would go to a show and see Ella Fitzgerald performing the music of the Beatles. "

" 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

" The thing that I tell young people is everybody is unique in their approach to the music, and you have to protect that. "

" 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

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

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

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

" I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car. "

" 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. "

" I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience. "

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

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

" I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something. "

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

" Oh my gosh, I love Jon Hendricks. "

Dianne Reeves

Gosh

I Love

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Dianne Reeves

People

Easy

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

" Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974. "

" 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. "

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