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Charlie Parker Quotes by Al Jarreau

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Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only…

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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…

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I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time…

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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, mother, father, neighbor, citizen, when you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you're a pleasant person to be around. "Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need? Oh,…

I'm an R&B and pop singer as well as a jazzer.

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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

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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…

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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…

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I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with…

When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It…

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I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched…

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I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television…

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I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling…

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