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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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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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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Think of the problem of the world as a cart. It has to have two wheels. If you have one wheel, the cart doesn't go. If you have one wheel called socialism, it doesn't go. If you have only one wheel called capitalism, it doesn't go. It needs two wheels. These two wheels are capitalism and socialism.
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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
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One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.
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There are incredible musicians around the world.
