I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that. — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
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… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines,… — 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
