Dianne Reeves Quotes

#1. I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

Erica Tazel

#2. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

M. Kirin

#3. Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.

Gough Whitlam

#4. Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Franz Kafka

#5. Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

John Wooden

#6. God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more."
~Shane~

Rachel Caine

#7. I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

Jessica Williams

#8. Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.

Borden Chase

#9. You can't get to no better days Unless you make it through the night

Dianne Reeves

#10. The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I was growing up. My parents loved jazz music, so on Saturday [laughing] it would be the "Longine's Symphonettes," and on Sunday it was Mahalia Jackson.

Dianne Reeves

#11. The imagination of creative thought can be a crazy place,this giving reason to write it down to try and make sense of it all.

Helen Ingram

#12. Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

Dianne Reeves

#13. It could go on for years and years,
And has, for centuries,
For being human holds a special grief
Of privacy within the universe
That yearns and waits to be retouched
By someone who can take away
The memory of death.

Herbert Mason

#14. There's a bridge to tomorrow, There's a bridge to the past.

Dianne Reeves

#15. God doesn't change his word, if He has promised you something;you better believe that is done before it's existence.

Euginia Herlihy

#16. Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all

Dianne Reeves