"I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band."

“Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.”

“You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.”

“That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.”

Source : "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

“Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.”

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”

Source : Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.”

“Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.”

Source : Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”