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Jose James Quotes: "I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when I get an idea I write it down."

I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when I get an idea I write it down.



Jose James Quotes: "I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz."

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.




Jose James Quotes: "When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus."

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.



Jose James Quotes: "I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it."

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it.




Jose James Quotes: "I'm pretty much always planning two albums ahead."

I'm pretty much always planning two albums ahead.



Jose James Quotes: "If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues."

If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.



Jose James Quotes: "[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about."

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.




Jose James Quotes: "For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge."

For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge.



Jose James Quotes: "When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz."

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.



Jose James Quotes: "Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately."

Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.