Kelly Sweet
Overview
 
Kelly Sweet is an adult contemporary singer with classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 styles currently living in Los Angeles, CA.
Kelly Sweet was born into a musical household in Cape Cod
Cape Cod
Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

. She was raised on the jazz standards that were part of her father's repertoire, and learned musical notes soon after she could walk with her father's help. Her first public performance followed when she was 4 years old at the Cape Cod Conservatory.

At the age of 7, following the divorce of her parents, Sweet and her mother moved to Kanab, Utah
Kanab, Utah
Kanab is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, United States. The area was first settled in 1864 and the town was founded in 1870 when ten Mormon families moved into the area. The population was 3,564 at the 2000 census...

.
Quotations

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.

Ali, A Hundred Sayings

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

Thomas Carlyle, Rectorial Address at Edinburgh, 2nd April 1886

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, 1950

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon, Murphy's Law book two: More reasons why things go wrong! (1980) ISBN 0843106743 by Arthur Bloch|Arthur Bloch page 52.  

"Folly is as great as the sea. It can compass anything."

Antef, Nomarch|Nomarch of Thebes, Egypt|Thebes, in Bolesław Prus's novel Pharaoh (novel)|Pharaoh (1895), chapter 61.

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

Ed Solomon|Ed Solomon, screenplay, Men in Black

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, Pt. ii

Weapons-Grade Stupidity: Tech-support slang for customer intelligence that is so low it poses a severe hazard to those who come in contact with it.

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