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

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" The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Go out into the world with your passion and love for what you do, and just never give up. "

" 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. "

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

" The thing that I tell young people is everybody is unique in their approach to the music, and you have to protect that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" My records are one thing. My live performances are something totally different because they're very improvised performances. "

" Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility. "

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

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

" Oh my gosh, I love Jon Hendricks. "

" I love New York City because there's something to do 24/7, something that will make you see things in a whole different light. Like they say, it's the city that never sleeps. "

" I feel proud of my journey. I wouldn't change it. "

" The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound. "

" Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents. "