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Kurt Elling Quotes

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.

Kurt Elling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 2, 1967

Topics

Song Stand Trying You Sometimes Up

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Jodie Foster

Time Looking Look Know Movies Hard

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

John Kruk

People Plumbing West West Virginia

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

Michael Ashcroft

Love Today I Am Game More Decade

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

Amy Lee

Love Music Way Always Gone Rule

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Amanda Seales

Music Poetry People Me Self Comedy

I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.

Trevor Paglen

Work Art Day People Want March

Watching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It's the only way to break down your opponents.

Tony Parker

Game Key Down Way Watching Break

I love comics for comics' sake. Always have. Always will.

Tom King

Love Will Always Comics Sake I Love

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

Tom Shales

Home People Long Come And Go Go See

The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.

Jon Ronson

Empathy Free Choose Lose Serious Us

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Donald Trump

Fight Challenges Tough You Back

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe

Art Man Effort Reality Create Him