Kurt Elling Quotes
A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun of.
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I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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People hate searching.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
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I worked with a couple of chocolate Labradors, which were a lot of fun. Very excitable. They're cute.
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I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
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I'm just an instant flirt with most people. I'm very cheeky.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.
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Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.
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Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.
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There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If youre good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
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A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun of.
