Maxine Sullivan

Jazz goes into my coffee in the morning, in my wine at night.

I was not prepared to play the role of singer in the camp of the warriors

Music gives us a lot of things and it only wants one thing back… your attention.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

I’ve worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren’t.

People don’t want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately and this is one of the biggest problems.

The way a band works is a metaphor for all sorts of collaborative and larger enterprises that people do.

To me, singing is like talking. If it ain’t natural, it ain’t right.

Jazz has always been a man telling the truth about himself.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!

Of course there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it’s about finding our infinity.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.