Musical Selection Quotes

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.

I have a repertoire of songs that I'm proud of, that I've written for my own band. When I do a cover, something that somebody else has written, I think about it very carefully before I sing that song. I have to really get behind it and understand it and like it. And that's how I pick roles. I don't want to play just anything.

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.

I think, any of your audition songs should really be a song that you are so confident with and can pull out of your back pocket. Find a song that shows your entire range very quickly.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

I don't choose the songs; the songs choose me.

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

DJ Jazzy Jeff is the best DJ you can have at a party. Did you see his playlist? He has good taste.

It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show.

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.