Kurt Elling Quotes
I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.
Quotes to Explore
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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Both should share the same concept of what a relationship means and the same energy to believe in a monogamous relationship.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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Not being boring is quite a challenge.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail is unlike any other performance venue in the world, set with mountains and trees as a backdrop.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.
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I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
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I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.
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Wall Street figured out that, with the amount of money they could make off timber harvests, relative to the rapid increase in land prices, the return on investment isn't enough. It's become more important as a real estate investment than as a forest-management investment.
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I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.
