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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band. "

" 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. "

" My friend Harry Belafonte is an activist and musician, an extraordinary man who has dedicated his life to human rights. He taught me the power of words and that music can be used to heal and educate people. "

" I'm always inspired to push forward. "

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

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

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

" I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974. "

" When I moved to Los Angeles, right away I met all kinds of musicians. "

" My musical selections are a reflection of how I grew up. Because, back then, you could see Miles Davis and Ravi Shankar on the same stage. And nobody thought anything of it, other than the fact that it was great music. "

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

" Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful. "

" 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. "

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

" I love Denver. "

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

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

" Anything that had to do with music is what I wanted to do. "

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

" I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want to do. "

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

" I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely. "