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"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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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"Doubt isn't original."
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"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
Music
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
Music
"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'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
Artist
"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
Mother
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
Thought
"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."
Memory
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
African
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
Musicians
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