Cassandra Wilson Quotes

They wanted us to sit down, but there wasn't a place to sit down. The place was so small you could stand in the middle and touch everything. They must have slept sitting up on the couch. - Cassandra Wilson

There's a lot happening in many of us. I think you have to celebrate every part. It's what you are. You have to try to find all of those secret names. - Cassandra Wilson

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have. - Cassandra Wilson

She was diagnosed the year before last and it took a turn for the worst in November so I had to come down to help manage things and to help set up the household so that she is cared for. So I've been here since November. - Cassandra Wilson

Offense-wise, we were not in a scheme. We told the girls they had to play at a higher defensive level. - Cassandra Wilson

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. - Cassandra Wilson

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order! - Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. - Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse. - Cassandra Wilson

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist. - Cassandra Wilson

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