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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 light. Like they say, it's the city that never sleeps.

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

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

Your voice is not your instrument. Your voice is the character that you build, your innermost feelings, the things that you want to say, and your instrument is the vehicle that you use to carry the message.

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

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

The music we do is weaved together through stories and life experiences. When people come to hear us, I hope they are are uplifted and that we give them a lot to take home.

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

My musical selections are a reflection of how I grew up. Because, back then, you could see Miles Davis and Ravi Shankar on the same stage. And nobody thought anything of it, other than the fact that it was great music.

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

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

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're unified by the rhythm underneath and the way that we decided to arrange and play them.

I did a project called 'Sing The Truth,' which was a lot of fun. It started out being a celebration of the music of Nina Simone, and it was me and Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo.

I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about Sarah Vaughan. You would go to a show and see Ella Fitzgerald performing the music of the Beatles.

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

I come from a family of musicians.

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

When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this is what I wanted to do.

I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want to do.

My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far.

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

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

When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul. Every song was like a movie, a unique and very different vignette.

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

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

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

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

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

And I've found that, you know, the world of music is so vast and so broad, but at the same time, it's easy to find parts of yourself in places that you wouldn't even think that you were, you know?

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things that really have influenced and addressed your life.

I love Denver.

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

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

Being from Colorado is, to me, very, very special. I'm just very thankful to be here. I'm also thankful to be a part of the history of this state.

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

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

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

Oh my gosh, I love Jon Hendricks.

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

A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be. I just want to have the opportunity to be able to bring that to some young people.

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

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the music.

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 mandatory, but it will come out.

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

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

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

My records are one thing. My live performances are something totally different because they're very improvised performances.

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

My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing.

I remember my grandmother used to always say, 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket.' But when I realized that music was inside of me, I decided I'm putting all my eggs in one basket.

In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists; they didn't want any singers. But I made my way in, and I remember the conductor of the band wrote a lot of arrangements and asked me what I wanted to sing.

Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there were no teachers to teach it, so I came up with all kinds of different ways to develop the sound of my voice.

I'm always inspired to push forward.

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

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

I've always had really wonderful people around me. But early on, I remember I would walk into a session or go do something with some musicians, and they viewed me, basically, as their chick singer.

Lizz Wright, we call her lovingly 'Amazing Grace.' She has a folk and gospel kind of approach to the music, and she writes beautiful lyrics and songs. She's like this balm that is really full and very rich and deep.

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

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I worked with Clark Terry, that was the beginning of school for me, and Harry Belafonte and Sergio Mendes, they were all my universities.

There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you're connected by a creative desire.

I had a few celebrity crushes when I was growing up, including Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations. And I loved Marvin Gaye - I thought he was everything and instantly fell for his voice.

My friend Harry Belafonte is an activist and musician, an extraordinary man who has dedicated his life to human rights. He taught me the power of words and that music can be used to heal and educate people.

I've dated a few musicians in my life, and it's kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together.

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

I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and the music was in alphabetical order. I hadn't heard of that word 'genre.'

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

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

Some people think that all you do is record, and it's not the case. You take on other projects as well, and you have to live a little bit because it inspires your work.

The music industry is changing. You only hear a sprinkling of big names, but there are a lot of really wonderful young musicians with great voices and lyrical content who have refined their sound. They're up in here, so don't think they're not. There's this wealth of talent below the surface that's ready to explode.

I knew what the story behind 'Dreams' was. It was about Stevie Knicks' relationship. But when I sing it, it's about sharing some sage advice with somebody.

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

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

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

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

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

Too many people judge a singer like Beyonce by what they see on the surface. Knowing the musicians she's worked with and how she works, I have a lot of respect for her.

Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.

I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts and your way for painting your musical picture.

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

I believe that music should really be without boundaries.

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

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

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

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

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

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

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

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