Diana Krall

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

What we do as artists is a combination of experience and imagination. How that creeps into your work is not so linear.

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don’t change.

I’m not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I’d rather be figured out.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I’ve sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you’re writing it’s very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I’ve been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

A Jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

Art should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise.

After the music is over it’s gone in the air. You can never capture it again.

A Jazz performance centers upon the process of creation. The final objective is not only the finished product, but the path and process taken towards it.

Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a look into our redemptive future possibilities.

Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.

For years the trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We starved.

If you’re gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

You explore beautiful songs and create your own interpretation of them.