Dianne Reeves Quotes

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows.

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

'Black Radio' was pretty much a jam session.

In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.