The 22+ Diana Krall Quotes

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.

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.

You Know, We Recently Played A Benefit With My Husband, Elvis Costello, And Sir Elton John, Who Is A Mutual Friend Of Ours. Playing With Elvis And Elton And Accompanying Them With My Band Was A Pretty Euphoric Experience.

When You Drive By Radio City And You See Your Name Up There And It's Only 'your' Name. I Just Went 'ooh'. I Thought This Is Really Like Looking At Another Person.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've Sung A Lot Of Emotional Songs, But When You're Writing It's Very Difficult To Decide What To Reveal.

Sometimes I Can't Get Out Of The Character Because The Story Is Very Intense.

I Always Wonder What Drives Us As Artists.