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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. "

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

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

" Audiences have taught me how to sing better and entertain better. "

" 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. "

" The idea is to be unrestrained by categories. "

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

" There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art. "

" 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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" My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable. "

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

" I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about. "

" My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of. "

" It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them. "

" People want to have access to jazz because it has a vibe that's very strong. "

" 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. "

" It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences by trying to reflect back to them the genius of their own cultures, and to do that, oftentimes, in new jazz settings, new arrangements. It's a way to show respect. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it. "

" I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on. "

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

" I like the power and versatility of a big band and how an orchestra can vary the dynamics from very loud to very quiet, and SNJO covers those bases. "

" The singer is always an ambassador of music. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to take it easy. "

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

" I hope to be at the top of my game when I'm 65 or 70. I don't want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I'm holding back anything, but there's a bunch of junk I don't know. "

" Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that. "

" I'm a goof, man. "