I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.
And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.
My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.
You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.
Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.
The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music
Music without soul is a sound but sound with a soul is music
The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician i...
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance...
The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a bir...
I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have the gentle side of Coltrane or Brubeck on the CD player. It creates sort of a spiritual space in which I write best.
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.
