Dianne Reeves

I love Denver.

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

Anything that had to do with music is what I wanted to do.

— Dianne Reeves

I like coming home and sharing things I've tasted or seen.

— Dianne Reeves

Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful.

— Dianne Reeves

I grew up with great mentors in my life who helped me become the singer I am today.

— Dianne Reeves

Each project that you do is something you believe in for that moment in time.

— Dianne Reeves

When I moved to Los Angeles, right away I met all kinds of musicians.

— Dianne Reeves

My mother was really amazing and left me with a whole lot of treasures. I miss her terribly.

— Dianne Reeves

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

— Dianne Reeves

Lizz Wright, we call her lovingly 'Amazing Grace.' She has a folk and gospel kind of approach to the music, and she…

— Dianne Reeves

I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and…

— Dianne Reeves

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements…

— Dianne Reeves

My demographic is very broad. Once they come, they had an idea about jazz, and then they hear me, and they come…

— Dianne Reeves

And I've found that, you know, the world of music is so vast and so broad, but at the same time, it's…

— Dianne Reeves

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

— Dianne Reeves

Being from Colorado is, to me, very, very special. I'm just very thankful to be here. I'm also thankful to be a…

— Dianne Reeves

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's…

— Dianne Reeves

The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I…

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

When I sing a song, I want someone to recognize 'Now that's Dianne singing that song.'

— Dianne Reeves

One of the things that I love about Sarah Vaughan is that she was always very current.

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

I knew what the story behind 'Dreams' was. It was about Stevie Knicks' relationship. But when I sing it, it's about sharing…

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

The thing that I tell young people is everybody is unique in their approach to the music, and you have to protect…

— Dianne Reeves

My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing…

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Dianne Reeves

I come from a family of musicians.

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

— Dianne Reeves

I always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band.

— Dianne Reeves

My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.

— Dianne Reeves