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Diana Krall

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    But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

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    Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers.

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    I always wonder what drives us as Artists.

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    I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.

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    I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.

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    I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.

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    I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

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    It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

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    I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

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    Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

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    My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me.

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    Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

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    So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

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    The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

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    The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!

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    There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

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    You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.