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"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."
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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."
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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
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"My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed."
Music
"I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me."
People
"I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life."
Life
"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."
Jazz
"Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record."
People
"If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool."
Anxiety
"When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else."
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"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."
Jazz
"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
Jazz
"Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."
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