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" One of the things that I love about Sarah Vaughan is that she was always very current. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" I love Denver. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components. "

" My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do. "

" I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience. "

" When I was in junior high school, I knew I really wanted to sing. "

" I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" My musicians know all of my music, and so that makes for something different. "

" Oh my gosh, I love Jon Hendricks. "

" Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom. "

" 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. "

" 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. "