20 Random Quotes By - Al Jarreau

20 Random Quotes By - Al Jarreaue

It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can't get caught up in the limousines and the chicks. The most important thing is the music.

— Al Jarreau

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 me and kept me alive and around.

— Al Jarreau

I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.

— Al Jarreau

I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.

— Al Jarreau

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

— Al Jarreau

I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.

— Al Jarreau

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

I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.

— Al Jarreau

You know, I think in some kinds of ways, we are all born into stuff that gives us no choice.

— Al Jarreau

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 we have.

— Al Jarreau

Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.

— Al Jarreau

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 also economies and systems, like banking, are left to zeros and ones. I want to be more than a zero or one.

— Al Jarreau

Music - special magic that communicates feelings and sensitivities that are human and what is so wonderful about the art. Let your kids get involved in the arts and study this workshop of human sensitivities, sadness, joy, happiness and aware of sadness and joy and happiness in their lives.

— Al Jarreau

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

— Al Jarreau

I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

— Al Jarreau

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 the industry: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Sly and the Family Stone.

— Al Jarreau

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

— Al Jarreau

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.

— Al Jarreau

I work 'cause I have to pay the bills. But I also work 'cause I love it. I don't know what I'd do with me if I didn't have this work. It's what I've done all my life. It's my motivation. It's my satisfaction. It's my joy to stand in front of an audience to sing, to come back home and write songs. Man, it's amazing for me.

— Al Jarreau

I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.

— Al Jarreau

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