“You don't just let a guy drop off the earth and not come together with...” — Kurt Elling Quote

“You don't just let a guy drop off the earth and not come together with everybody who knew him and loved him and respected him. You try to do it the right way.”

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

“My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.”

“Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.”

“Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.”

“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.”

“The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it.”

“This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”

“I rarely drop the ball, and hopefully that trend continues.”

“The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.”

“I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that's normally my go-to (pitch).”

“I drop the gloves once in a while.”