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" I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car. "
Dianne Reeves
Long
Car
Long Time
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" I believe that music should really be without boundaries. "
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" My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit. "
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" My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing. "
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" I grew up with great mentors in my life who helped me become the singer I am today. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but it will come out. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974. "
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" When I moved to Los Angeles, right away I met all kinds of musicians. "
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Los Angeles
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" 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. "
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Great
Know
" 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.' "
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Go
Early
You
" Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage. "
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Everybody
Onstage
Jazz
" When I was in junior high school, I knew I really wanted to sing. "
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Sing
High
High School
" When I sing a song, I want someone to recognize 'Now that's Dianne singing that song.' "
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Sing
Now
Singing
" 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. "
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Musicians
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" 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. "
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You
Voice
Say
" 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. "
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Great
People
Think
" 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. "
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Life
Painting
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" I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano. "
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Stage
" 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. "
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Creative
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" Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility. "
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" My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do. "
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Musicians
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" I feel proud of my journey. I wouldn't change it. "
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" 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. "
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Fall
" I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller. "
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" I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres. "
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Never
Really
Should
" My mother was really amazing and left me with a whole lot of treasures. I miss her terribly. "
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Me
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" Go out into the world with your passion and love for what you do, and just never give up. "
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