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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" And I've found that, you know, the world of music is so vast and so broad, but at the same time, it's easy to find parts of yourself in places that you wouldn't even think that you were, you know? "

" When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach. "

" I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Oh my gosh, I love Jon Hendricks. "

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

" 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. "