Kurt Elling Quotes

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

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• All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Trying
  • Freedom
  • Creativity

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Long
  • School
  • Performance

• So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

  

  Feist
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Simple

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Game
  • Son

• All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • Desire
  • Problem

• 'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stop

• Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Sexy
  • Emotions
  • Forced

• When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Small
  • Wisdom
  • Thoughts

• We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Like
  • Youth
  • Noise

• Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Me
  • Made
  • Everything

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Lawyer

• I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Music
  • Country
  • Fun

• I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Thinking

• However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Different
  • Desire

• As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was as if I had grown again as I slept, but this time just to fit my own size. As if my soul had expanded, filling out the gaps of the height that had burdened me all these months. Like a balloon filling slowly with air, becoming all smooth and buoyant, I felt like I finally fit within myself, edge to edge, every crevice filled.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Soul
  • Air
  • Fit

• Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time, that is the most important thing.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Pretty
  • Band