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President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.


Valerie Jarrett

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VALERIE SIMPSON It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo an...
VALERIE SIMPSON Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It...
VALERIE SIMPSON When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce oth...
VALERIE SIMPSON I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possibl...
VALERIE SIMPSON It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
VALERIE SIMPSON And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
VALERIE SIMPSON Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody tau...
VALERIE SIMPSON I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would c...
VALERIE SIMPSON I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good...
VALERIE SIMPSON My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I&#...
VALERIE SIMPSON You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves ...
VALERIE SIMPSON In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
VALERIE SIMPSON There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Nee...
VALERIE SIMPSON Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
VALERIE SIMPSON We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next...
VALERIE SIMPSON I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been aro...
VALERIE SIMPSON The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other peop...
VALERIE JUNE I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these...
VALERIE JUNE When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his...
VALERIE JUNE When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of...
VALERIE JUNE When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the worl...
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