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" I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty. "

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" The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" I've got more low notes than I had when I started. "

" There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song. "

" There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don't pay attention to the lyric. "

" A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings. "

" If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records. "

" I know how hard it's been for me to get my thing out there. "

" Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak. "

" I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz. "

" I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road. "

" I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a white tux, and I thought, 'That would be good. To be the only man on stage in a white jacket.' "

" I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously. "

" Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves. "

" It's a beautiful thing to have time in the world, as a singer and as a musician, to make friends with people of the musical caliber of a Tommy Smith, an Arturo Sandoval, a Richard Galliano, a Till Broenner. "

" People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical. "

" We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind. "

" I spend upwards of 200 nights a year on the road. "

" You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too soon, and you have to make the most of it. "

" If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come. "

" When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up. "

" At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated. "

Graduate School

" I didn't arrive on the scene until after Jaco Pastorius had passed, but 'Three Views of a Secret' is a long-time favourite of mine. "

" Chicago is my home. And the way Chicago sounds will always be a part of who I am. "

" In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate. "

" My goal is to be really incredible by the time I'm 70. "

" I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about. "

" You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment. "

" It's true that I'm not known as a crooner or balladeer. I'm known for a more crusading or quixotic temperament. "

" I think I make most of my decisions pretty organically. "