Dee Dee Bridgewater famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.
-- Dee Dee Bridgewater

#Player #Numbers #Musician
I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.
-- Dee Dee Bridgewater

#Singers #Way #Jazz
There wouldn't be a Halle Berry or an Angela Bassett or a Cicely Tyson if there hadn't been a Lena Horne.
-- Dee Dee Bridgewater

#Berries #Tyson #Angela

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.
One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Dee Dee Bridgewater famous quotes

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