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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
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"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."
"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."
"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."
"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."
"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."
"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."
"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
"I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever."
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