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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music. "

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

" There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you're connected by a creative desire. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I did a project called 'Sing The Truth,' which was a lot of fun. It started out being a celebration of the music of Nina Simone, and it was me and Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I feel proud of my journey. I wouldn't change it. "

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