99 Quotes by Kurt Elling

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

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

Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak.

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

I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

It's a beautiful thing to have time in the world, as a singer and as a musician, to make friends with people of the musical caliber of a Tommy Smith, an Arturo Sandoval, a Richard Galliano, a Till Broenner.

I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.

One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.

I hope to be at the top of my game when I'm 65 or 70. I don't want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I'm holding back anything, but there's a bunch of junk I don't know.