I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road... Well, I can't even believe this is work.

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life.

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

At the end of everyday, you stand closer to your Goal.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.