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" 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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that. "

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" 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 listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and they work for me. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

Thankful

Special

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

" My friend Harry Belafonte is an activist and musician, an extraordinary man who has dedicated his life to human rights. He taught me the power of words and that music can be used to heal and educate people. "

" 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. "

" I come from a family of musicians. "

" 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'm a great cook. People have asked me to do a cookbook. "

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

Dianne Reeves

Mother

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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