Al Green Groovy Quotes

Al Green Groovy Quotese

I'm thankful for every moment.

— Al Green

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

— Al Green

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

— Al Green

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

— Al Green

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

— Al Green

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

— Al Green

I figured that if we had to choose the woman president, she'd be the first woman president, and if we had the kid from Honolulu and the Harvard graduate, we'd have the first black president. They were both lawyers, and they knew the law, and I saw Obama and said that he's got some vision, and that's what a lot of people are latching on to.

— Al Green

I started singing when I was a little kid. I was about nine when we had a group with my four brothers. We sang spirituals. The old regular thing.

— Al Green

God told me, 'I gave you the music, Al. Sing the music I gave you - all the music.' So I did.

— Al Green

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

— Al Green

Before I knew it, I was singing, 'I'm so tired of being alone,' and that's Al right there. From then, my attitude was, 'Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I'm not going to emulate them anymore.'

— Al Green

I said, 'I'm a rock star. I can't preach in nobody's church. Are you crazy?' Let alone buy one. Oh, I wound up buying one.

— Al Green

My brothers and I had a gospel quartet, and that was the only music people listened to. But I was already gravitating towards songs by Sam Cooke, and then one day I put on a Jackie Wilson record, and baby, I was thrown right out of the house.

— Al Green

When I was ordained as a pastor, I walked away from secular music for seven, eight years. It took me that time to learn that God is love.

— Al Green

I feel like the 'Greatest Hits' is a homegrown remedy for love.

— Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

— Al Green

Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It's music that... says you don't have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I'm saying? Music that can go from any range.

— Al Green

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

— Al Green

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