Dianne Reeves

I love Denver.

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I've always respected and taken care of my instrument.

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Oh my gosh, I love Jon Hendricks.

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I feel proud of my journey. I wouldn't change it.

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I'm always inspired to push forward.

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I come from a family of musicians.

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Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

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I've always liked a lot of different kinds of music.

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

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I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing.

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

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I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

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Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

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

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

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I've always had really wonderful people around me. But early on, I remember I would walk into a session or go do…

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I loved singing something like 'I've Got My Eye On You' when it's really about the FBI. It turns a love song…

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When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul.…

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When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this…

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I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music…

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Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of…

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I had a few celebrity crushes when I was growing up, including Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations. And I loved Marvin Gaye…

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I never wanted to do anything else, really. I left home at an early age trying to find my voice, my niche…

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My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games…

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Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there…

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Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in.…

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The beauty of Billie Holiday is that she gave every singer after her the license to interpret and perform music in ways…

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My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put…

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Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young…

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I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK,…

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The music industry is changing. You only hear a sprinkling of big names, but there are a lot of really wonderful young…

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I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano.

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Go out into the world with your passion and love for what you do, and just never give up.

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I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

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I didn't learn the word 'genre' until way, way late - I mean, like, in the '80s.

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Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

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I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.

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Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

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I believe that music should really be without boundaries.

— Dianne Reeves