"I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is? And even singing classical voice, I quickly became more and more interested with early music, baroque voice. And that became an obsession to me - just figuring out how - who are the ancestors of whatever it is."

Source : "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

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“It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes - in writing or in life - and do not fret about them but pass on and write more.”
“The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.”

Source : "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.
“Money is a great dignifier.”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gene Andrew Jarrett, Thomas Lewis Morgan (2005). “The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.24, Ohio University Press
“The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.”
“All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it ...”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.204, Atlantic Monthly Press
“I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.”
“The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.”

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