Kurt Elling Quotes

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

Music inspires some feeling in you. That's the same way I think about Uber.

Through music, I think we can inspire each other.

That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things.

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

Music means life and love in its purest form. It's about capturing your emotions and celebrating everything about life.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.

My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.

Art is communication.

The music beckons to those who are listening.

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

I don't know, samples are just like unlimited ideas, you know? Sometimes a lot of people sample one song. A lot of it is also really just up to the artist and their creativity to see where it goes and what they want to do.

That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.