105 Quotes by Dianne Reeves

I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about Sarah Vaughan. You would go to a show and see Ella Fitzgerald performing the music of the Beatles.

If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own.

My musicians know all of my music, and so that makes for something different.

I had a few celebrity crushes when I was growing up, including Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations. And I loved Marvin Gaye - I thought he was everything and instantly fell for his voice.

I come from a family of musicians.

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this is what I wanted to do.

I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want to do.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.