Diana Krall

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

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.

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

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.

When you’re on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn’t exactly a sound – it’s a hum, like the streets.

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

I discovered very early that it wasn’t quite enough for me to imitate people.

I don’t have a definition of Jazz. You’re just supposed to know it when you hear it.

For me, I started on a Les Paul and went through years of playing other guitars and just came back full circle to what was more natural to me.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, now heaven knows, anything goes.

If the audience doesn’t hear what is going on, is it going on?

Today Jazz music is performed and listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages and creeds.

Jazz music today is from the head and not the heart.

Eliminating the piano means that I’ve always worked closer with the bass than most players.

You gotta love livin’, baby, ’cause dyin’ is a pain in the ass.

I’ve always liked the Freddie King/B. B. King rich tone, and at the same time, I like the manic Buddy Guy/Otis Rush Strat tone. So I’m always caught in the middle of the Gibson and Fender sounds. If I’m playing my black [Fender] Strat, and I’m in the middle of a blues, I kind of wish I was playing a [Gibson] Les Paul. Then again, if I was playing a Les Paul, the sound would be great, but I’d be saying, “Man, I wish I had the Stratocaster neck!”

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else.

Never lose the groove to find a note.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.