- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh. For others, it might be just like a comfortable shirt they've been wearing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tour a lot and interview a lot. I'm on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I've got a bass drum and a sandwich sign and a washboard. You just have to shout louder and louder that you're still alive.
- Easy Access
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine a more ideal life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time than I spend performing anywhere else in the world. I have a great relationship with the people of Ohio, and it's great to be near the OSU when I come to Columbus.
- Nov 07, 2020
Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.
- Inspired
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- Nov 07, 2020