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"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
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"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."
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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."
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"I feel really different from other musicians."
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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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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."
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"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
Church
"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."
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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."
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
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
Musicians
"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."
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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."
Memory
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