American - Musician | November 2, 1967 -
I've got more low notes than I had when I started.
Kurt Elling
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I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.
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I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.
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I haven't been afraid of John Coltrane or Miles Davis or Bill Evans or Wayne Shorter or Herbie Hancock. Why would I be afraid of the Beatles?
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I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
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The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.
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Part of my joy as a singer is to give gifts to people, and one way I try to connect to them is to add something in French or German or whatever.
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You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.
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As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.
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It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
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Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.
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There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.
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