Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie...… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I'm telling you, it makes you a better husband,… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
I came along with that crowd of singer-songwriters who were able to make their own statements in such a personal way that it changed… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
I'm a little bit nervous for us with all of this electronically generated new hyper-space that we've moved into, where not only people but… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging,… — Al Jarreau Copy Share
I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times. — Al Jarreau Copy Share
