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" While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed. "

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

" If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records. "

" I spend upwards of 200 nights a year on the road. "

" I had everything to gain by giving it everything I could. "

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

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

" I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day. "

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

" If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come. "

" I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air. "

" Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't just let a guy drop off the earth and not come together with everybody who knew him and loved him and respected him. You try to do it the right way. "

" 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.' "

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

" People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical. "

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

" 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. "

" Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak. "

" You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear. "

" I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty. "

" 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. "

" There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don't pay attention to the lyric. "

" It's a lovely thing to have people in any circumstance appreciate your work. "

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

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