Jessica Williams

No, working is what will keep you alive.

I think I was supposed to play Jazz.

I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.

I don’t get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.

The high note is not the only thing.

There’s a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain’t no vampire!

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.