Kurt Elling Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I want to have a long career.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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I just go with my gut.
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There are incredible musicians around the world.
