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My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.


Jan Hammer

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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
ROD STEWART I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
PHOEBE SNOW One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.
KURT ELLING The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
PHOEBE SNOW My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour ...
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BENJAMIN BOOKER I want to be the jazz singer.
KURT ELLING Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
RITA COOLIDGE It's very modern. Very gamine. You look like a jazz singer.
ELIZABETH E. WEIN I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of my...
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BECKY G It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.
MARIAH CAREY When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
WHITNEY HOUSTON I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
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DORIS WILLIAMS I opened myself to your silences.
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FRANK SINATRA It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall.
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RICK ASTLEY I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
JAMAICA KINCAID Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.
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JESSICA SIMPSON Nobody's ever gonna accuse me of being a singer, but I can sing.
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JACK WALKER I'm not a very typical singer.
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ADAM ANT I wasn't a great background singer.
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MELANIE FIONA I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
MELINDA CLARKE I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, ...
ANITA BAKER I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz stor...
TARAJI P. HENSON Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or...
TONY BENNETT I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being lit...
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JAN KARON What a beautiful woman. She moved with grace, she was entirely feminine, and yet, she possessed incr...
JAN MORAN I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate th...
JAN HUS You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the pr...
JAN GLIDEWELL Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closin...
JAN MYRDAL If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
JAN MCKEITHEN I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incompreh...
JAN EGELAND It's so disturbing that someone could be so bold and desperate that they needed to do that.
JAN BIEBER But the Joint Committee is not meeting, so we are in a vicious circle at the moment.
JAN PRONK People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the...
JAN KOUM Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios betw...
JAN CHIPCHASE At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all...
JAN KOUM As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, bu...
JAN VOGLER Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon wou...
JAN SCHAKOWSKY We think it has been the No. 1-selling cookbook since 1930.
JAN MILLER We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's...
JAN BREWER Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad b...
JAN KOUM