Every Quote by Kurt Elling

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way.…

— Kurt Elling

You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.

— Kurt Elling

I don't really have a more intellectualized approach. After the fact, I can sure talk about stuff a lot - but when I make…

— Kurt Elling

I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and…

— Kurt Elling

I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.

— Kurt Elling

A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.

— Kurt Elling

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence.

— Kurt Elling

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

— Kurt Elling

There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song.

— Kurt Elling

A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun of.

— Kurt Elling

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

— Kurt Elling

You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too…

— Kurt Elling