Jill Scott Quotes

I just hope people enjoy 'Phase' as much as I've enjoyed making it. I hope it's a good reaction.

I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn't have this. I was special.

I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'

Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page.

I'm just singing a song, and if people want to laugh, that's their business.

I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.

I liked making people laugh. I remember that specifically, being really young and having my parents being in the audience and laughing. It wasn't really a 'Oh, I'm the center of attention' feeling; it was more 'Oh, I'm making them so happy right now' feeling. I liked that.

I started singing one day along with my cousin, and I didn't take it too seriously. The people started telling me, 'Hey, you have a nice voice.' and I was like, 'Really?'

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

My experience of being a singer and performer is there is something meditative and very positive about singing, just resonating the inside of your body.

I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music.

I think I was made for live music. It's just great.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.

With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes of language before people begin to trust you in a play.

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.