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"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."
"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."
"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."
"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."
"In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'"
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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."
"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."
"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
"I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
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