Jane Monheit Quotes

Jane Monheit shares lively jazz reflections that feel like a backstage chat, ideal for fans of music and travel tales.

10 quotes

  1. I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

  2. I just never doubted it [success as a professional Jazz singer], man. I could tell I was hip. It was just those other kids who didn't know, OK?

  3. I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road . . . Well, I can't even believe this is work.

  4. It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life.

  5. It's [Joni Mitchell's 'A Case of You'] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

  6. From the time I was a baby, this [Jazz] was the music I liked.

  7. Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her. (comment from Allison Stockel, artistic director of the Ridgefield [Connecticut] Playhouse)

  8. It [Ella Fitgerald's 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas'] is the happiest Christmas album I've ever heard. That album totally changed the way I look at Christmas albums. I loved what a happy, festive album it truly was . . . it's the best music to have playing when you have a Christmas celebration. I wanted my album to feel just like that.

  9. I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

  10. “Like a ghost that dances on the tip of a lit cigarette, I know what romance is, but it hasn't happened yet. Watch it floating up to heaven only knows, Disappearing before you get too close- It's only smoke. You might say a flame was burning, only smoke-- but my heart is more discerning, I keep dreaming of a fire But when I wake up to the cold-- It's only smoke. Eyes are hypnotizing when they hold you within their embrace. Words are mezmerizing even when they've got nothing to say. The game is charming in an empty kind of way. What's the harm in asking me to play? It's only smoke. You might say a flame was burning, only smoke-- but my heart is more discerning, I keep dreaming of a fire But when I wake up to the cold-- It's only smoke.”