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"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
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"I never decided to start singing, to be a singer."
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"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."
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"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."
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"Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing."
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"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
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"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."
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"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."
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"It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me."
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"I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson."
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"You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody."
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"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
Mother
"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
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"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
Music
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
African
"I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
Artist
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
Musicians
"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
Music
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
Singing
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
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"There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have."
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