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

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

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

It is action that creates motivation.

You don't look well, " he pronounced."Indigestion, " I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.

Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

I only stayed because you turned the lights out.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.