Dianne Reeves

I love Denver.

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I'm always inspired to push forward.

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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've always respected and taken care of my instrument.

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

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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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If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own.

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Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

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My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

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I'm a great cook. People have asked me to do a cookbook.

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You can't get to no better days Unless you make it through the night

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The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents.

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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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I have one closet that's just shoes. The woman go, 'Amen,' and the men go, 'Oh my God.' It's color-coordinated from the…

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The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that.

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I love New York City because there's something to do 24/7, something that will make you see things in a whole different…

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

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Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

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My musical selections are a reflection of how I grew up. Because, back then, you could see Miles Davis and Ravi Shankar…

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

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Peter Martin’s artistry is nothing short of extraordinary. To sing with him is sublime – to listen to him play is a…

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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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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 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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In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only…

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

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

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I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place.

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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.

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When I was in junior high school, I knew I really wanted to sing.

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

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There's a bridge to tomorrow, There's a bridge to the past.

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When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.

— Dianne Reeves