Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to under…

- Shirley Horn

Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.

- Shirley Horn

I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got.

- Shirley Horn

It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

- Shirley Horn

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.

- Shirley Horn