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

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

" 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. "

" Oh my gosh, I love Jon Hendricks. "

" I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place. "

" I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life. "

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

" I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller. "

" I never wanted to do anything else, really. I left home at an early age trying to find my voice, my niche in music. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Too many people judge a singer like Beyonce by what they see on the surface. Knowing the musicians she's worked with and how she works, I have a lot of respect for her. "

" I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved. "

" 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'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. "

" I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car. "

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

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

" I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about Sarah Vaughan. You would go to a show and see Ella Fitzgerald performing the music of the Beatles. "

" 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. "

" Some people think that all you do is record, and it's not the case. You take on other projects as well, and you have to live a little bit because it inspires your work. "

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

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

" I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres. "

" I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set a standard of excellence. I listen to them not for what they are doing, but to study where they are coming from because, for me, jazz is life experience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "