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" There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song. "

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

" 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. "

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" Part of my joy as a singer is to give gifts to people, and one way I try to connect to them is to add something in French or German or whatever. "

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" 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. "

" I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously. "

" 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. "

" I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not. "

" I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a white tux, and I thought, 'That would be good. To be the only man on stage in a white jacket.' "

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

" That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think. "

" It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man. "

" A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun of. "

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" You learn as much as you can from the people that you work with. That's why you want to surround yourself with the heaviest people that you can possibly get to. "

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

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" My goal is to be really incredible by the time I'm 70. "

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" We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal. "