Al Jarreau Quotes

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• I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
• I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have…
• To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual…
• Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in…
• These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The…
• Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your…
• Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing…
• That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where…
• I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I…
• My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and…
• Once you discover that you can, then you must.
• You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
• I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.
• I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips…
• I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and drinking beers and…
• I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
• I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.
• I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals…
• Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
• Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that…

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