Kurt Elling Quotes

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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• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Passion
  • Singing
  • I Can

• I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Like
  • Holiday
  • Too Much

• Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Day
  • Dog
  • Same

• If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Up
  • High
  • Want

• That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Joy

• If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Men
  • Me
  • Hand

• I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Words

• We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Game
  • Confidence

• I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Real
  • Gold

• I usually don't really have breakfast.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Really
  • Breakfast

• Outside, the main doors behind him, he was hit full in the chest by autumn. The doggy wind leapt about him and nipped; leaves skirred along the pavement, the scrape of the ferrules of sticks; melancholy, that tetrasyllable, sat on a plinth in the middle of the square. English autumn, and the whistling tiny souls of the dead round the war memorial.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • War
  • English
  • Wind

• What if I am an aficionado of bullfights and I think, contrary to the animal cruelty people, that they ennoble both beast and man. I would not be able to market videos showing people how exciting a bullfight.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • People
  • Animal

• Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Why

• 'There is much to be known,' said Adaon, 'and above all much to be loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • River

• I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Theatre

• I think I tend to try to let a woman walk through a door first, and I walk on the outside on the street. But that's probably because I'm an ancient creature.

  

  Jim Carter
  • Door

• Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Doubting
  • Diligently

• It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

  

  Nestor Carbonell

• You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

  

  Kurt Elling