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 Being Copy Share Image
My mother was really amazing and left me with a whole lot of treasures. I miss her terribly. — Dianne Reeves Amazing Copy Share Image
I grew up with great mentors in my life who helped me become the singer I am today. — Dianne Reeves Great Copy Share Image
Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in.… — Dianne Reeves Beginning Copy Share Image
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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
The beauty of Billie Holiday is that she gave every singer after her the license to interpret and perform music in ways… — Dianne Reeves Albums Copy Share Image
I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and… — Dianne Reeves Experience Copy Share Image
I like coming home and sharing things I've tasted or seen. — Dianne Reeves Coming home Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility. — Dianne Reeves Always Copy Share Image
My demographic is very broad. Once they come, they had an idea about jazz, and then they hear me, and they come… — Dianne Reeves America Copy Share Image
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 Eye Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one… — Dianne Reeves Desire Copy Share Image
Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality. — Dianne Reeves Art Copy Share Image
You can't get to no better days Unless you make it through the night — Dianne Reeves Better day Copy Share Image
I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music… — Dianne Reeves Boundaries Copy Share Image
In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only… — Dianne Reeves Band Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about… — Dianne Reeves Beatles Copy Share Image
Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young… — Dianne Reeves Enlightenment Copy Share Image
My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit. — Dianne Reeves Actually Copy Share Image
I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place. — Dianne Reeves Chameleon Copy Share Image
Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work. — Dianne Reeves Art Copy Share Image
I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find… — Dianne Reeves Experience Copy Share Image
Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom. — Dianne Reeves Artistic freedom Copy Share Image
