Diana Krall

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

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

You want the listener to find the song on their own, give too much away and it takes away from the imagination.

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

Jazz music has always been a place where anything is possible.

The expression of freedom that is Jazz improvisation mirrors the ethos of the best parts of society.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It’s our great contribution to the arts.

It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.

My chops were not as fast… [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it’s the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

I think I was supposed to play Jazz.

All music is beautiful.

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

I am an improviser, I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it, it’s all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

There’s millions and millions of people who think Les Paul is a guitar!

The emotional reaction is all that matters.

By and large Jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.