American - Musician | November 2, 1967 -
My goal is to be really incredible by the time I'm 70.
Kurt Elling
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You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.
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I'm one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song.
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There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don't pay attention to the lyric.
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There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song.
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'Man in the Air' was an experience in exercise.
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The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.
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I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.
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There are incredible musicians around the world.
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It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences by trying to reflect back to them the genius of their own cultures, and to do that, oftentimes, in new jazz settings, new arrangements. It's a way to show respect.
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My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.
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At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
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