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" It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band. "

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" The singer is always an ambassador of music. "

" Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body. "

" 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. "

" The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle. "

" I'm one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song. "

" Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides. "

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

" 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. "

" There are incredible musicians around the world. "

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

" You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies. "

" With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band. "

" Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh. "

" I try to sleep as much as I can. I drink a lot of water. I practice consistently and just try to be ready for the gig. "

" I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records. "

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

" I had everything to gain by giving it everything I could. "

" I've tried to learn as much as I can about the great jazz singers to understand what makes them important, vital artists, but there is always something more to learn. "

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" If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase. "

" I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep. "

" You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about. "

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

" 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

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

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

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

" I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and desire to take the kinds of risks that jazz musicians routinely need to be taking. "