Cassandra Wilson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Softball #Journey #Thinking
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Music #Careers #Phases
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Song #Stories #Behinds
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Song #Musician #Way
There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Memories #Blow #Night
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#African American #Black #Movement
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Jazz #Form #Miles
My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Grandmother #Singing #Kind
I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Music #School #Singing
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Music #Singers #Jazz
I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Music #Artist #Voice
My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
-- Cassandra Wilson

#Mother #Father #Order

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