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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.

~Kurt Elling

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Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.

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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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I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

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If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records.

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You learn as much as you can from the people that you work with. That's why you want to surround yourself with the heaviest people that you can possibly get to.

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I had everything to gain by giving it everything I could.

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While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: November 2nd, 1967

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