But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination. – Diana Krall
Youre creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that its their experience, not yours. Ill never introduce a song and say, now this song is about my broken heart. – Diana Krall
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. – Diana Krall
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him…. He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by