Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
AL JARREAUEvery living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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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.
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If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 stuff.
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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Find something you would do for free.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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