Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

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

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

" You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form. "

" Grammy nominations are certainly pleasant, but you can forget about them and lead a perfectly happy life - provided you have the approval of the musicians you work with. "

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

" I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago. "

" Salacious? I suppose every once in a while the salacious thing is not a bad thing. It's kind of monochromatic if that's all you do. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've tried to learn as much as I can about the great jazz singers to understand what makes them important, vital artists, but there is always something more to learn. "

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

" 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.' "

" I've got enough miles under my belt to know that whatever you envision in your mind, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The idea is to be unrestrained by categories. "

" The singer is always an ambassador of music. "

" A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings. "

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

" You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician. "

" I can't say New York's home, but I've made a lot of friends, and I'm developing a map of what cats are here and where they play, and as a singer, you're always looking for projects that tie things in emotionally and intuitively with your life. "