Al Jarreau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
-- Al Jarreau

#Song #Car #Old Friends
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 there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
-- Al Jarreau

#Rain #Eye #Blue
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 should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
-- Al Jarreau

#Song #Years #Needs
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 everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
-- Al Jarreau

#Thinking #Soul #Trying
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 some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
-- Al Jarreau

#Fashion #People #Records
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 blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
-- Al Jarreau

#Blessing #Effort #Steps
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 my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
-- Al Jarreau

#Careers #Laughing #Als
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 for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
-- Al Jarreau

#Talking #Littles #Messages
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 been gone a long time ago.
-- Al Jarreau

#Long #Suffering #Gone
I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
-- Al Jarreau

#Second Chance #Careers #Half
You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
-- Al Jarreau

#Music #Effort #Blues Music
Once you discover that you can, then you must.
-- Al Jarreau

#Music
Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
-- Al Jarreau

#Being Thankful #Important #Bed

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