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"I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way."
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"Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log."
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"Glittering tinsel,lights, glass balls, and candy canesdangle from pine trees."
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"All holidays can be good times."
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"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection."
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"Christmas is supported through celebration, joyfully passed on - from generation to generation."
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"There's something inherently majestic about Christmas that seems to have been abandoned by us; something flippantly cast aside, something that was foolishly abandoned and was tragically forgotten in the abandonment."
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"Let love, joy, hope and peace be the guiding lights during this holiday season."
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"I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns."
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"I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."
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"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."
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"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."
Father
"I love playing to people and seeing them react."
Love
"It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status."
Work
"Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff."
Experience
"My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by."
Music
"Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances."
Music
"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
Artist
"I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way."
Goal
"I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to."
Life
"I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way."
Holiday
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