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" Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak. "
Kurt Elling
Own
Love
Singing
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" I've got enough miles under my belt to know that whatever you envision in your mind, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general way. "
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" If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase. "
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" I've tried to learn as much as I can about the great jazz singers to understand what makes them important, vital artists, but there is always something more to learn. "
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" I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day. "
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" Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown. "
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Simply
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" I spend upwards of 200 nights a year on the road. "
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" If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records. "
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" In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate. "
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Reason
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" You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form. "
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Trying
Great
" I don't want to take it easy. "
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Easy
Want
" There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art. "
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Any
Art
Commitment
" Chicago is my home. And the way Chicago sounds will always be a part of who I am. "
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Way
Will
Always
" I can't say New York's home, but I've made a lot of friends, and I'm developing a map of what cats are here and where they play, and as a singer, you're always looking for projects that tie things in emotionally and intuitively with your life. "
Kurt Elling
Life
You
Looking
" It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band. "
Kurt Elling
Band
Steady
Rare
" I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about. "
Kurt Elling
Lucky
Me
More
" One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer. "
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Jazz Singer
Singer
Jazz
" My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of. "
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Know
Strength
Audience
" It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them. "
Kurt Elling
Time
Know
Possible
" People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical. "
Kurt Elling
Communication
Work
Want
" There are incredible musicians around the world. "
Kurt Elling
Incredible
Musicians
World
" A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings. "
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World
Wants
Jazz
" There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don't pay attention to the lyric. "
Kurt Elling
Opportunities
Fashion
Responsibility
" It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences by trying to reflect back to them the genius of their own cultures, and to do that, oftentimes, in new jazz settings, new arrangements. It's a way to show respect. "
Kurt Elling
Myself
Respect
Own
" I think I make most of my decisions pretty organically. "
Kurt Elling
Pretty
I Think
Most
" I don't really have a more intellectualized approach. After the fact, I can sure talk about stuff a lot - but when I make decisions, I really just follow what sounds good to me. "
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Me
Decisions
I Can
" You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician. "
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Records
Win
You
" I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records. "
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Enjoy
Just
Going
" Sometimes, with vocalese, I'm dealing with something, a great solo from the past, which is so iconic I can't presume to change it or mess with it. "
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Great
Past
Mess
" I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road. "
Kurt Elling
Wife
Myself
Beautiful
" The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence. "
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Great
Self-Confidence
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