Kurt Elling – HuffPost 10.5.12

Mike Ragogna: Perhaps you could give a little advice for new artists?

Kurt Elling: Well, really, the only advice is for up-and-coming artists to give everything that they can to the music, to love it with their actions as much as they do with their mouth, and by that, I mean really get in there and wrestle with it and study it and really learn the history and really develop your own sound by being self-disciplined. Ultimately, one needs to at least try to be smarter and more disciplined and more dedicated and work longer hours and sacrifice more than whoever it is you’re up against for the job.