Kurt Elling Quotes

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

I really love live performing!

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you mess up, you have to figure it out and keep going. There's no take two! I do hope to return to the stage someday. I really love to sing.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

I love performing.

The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

I love to entertain an audience.

It's a holistic process for me during a show. I'm always focusing on the technical aspects of my voice. I try to make my voice do what I want. One big thing I do to improve on each show is to listen back to performances on CD while on tour.

I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've been studying some tape of James Brown and different people.

My lyrical content is all about entertainment.

It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.

I'm here to put on a show.

I'm a hardcore performer. The rest follows.

Performing is fine.

If you take care of the music first, and then add elements of a good show, then it makes for a good combination.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?