Diana Krall

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

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

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

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.

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents. There must be respect for the people that have gone before.

No, working is what will keep you alive.

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

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it’s beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

For most dates I was paid the sum of $1 per hr and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

The majority of people mistakenly feel they don’t need a live musical experience.

You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room – proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about Jazz and Blues.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

This be an empty world without the blues.

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I’d never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

The high note is not the only thing.