Sarah Vaughan

"My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company."

"I've always been a Democrat, it runs in my family."

"Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice."

"There are notes between notes, you know."

"There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste."

"They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit."

"I dig Doris Day."

"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."

"To me, Sarah Vaughan is the height of artistic genius in twentieth-century culture."