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List of Al Jarreau Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 31 inspiring quotes by Al Jarreau.

About Al Jarreau

  • Born: March 12, 1940
  • Died: February 12, 2017
  • Occupation: Singer
    • I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and i was listening. i started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
    Summer Brother Night
    I watched elvis presley become - i listened to elvis presley. i watched chuck berry become. i listened to little richard. i heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
    Berries Littles Chuck
    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.
    Names Guy Democracy
    I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
    Second Chance Careers Half
    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.
    Careers Laughing Would Be
    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.
    Fashion People Records
    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.
    Garden Years Piano
    I was age six or seven, and singing, "jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and i knew i was doing something right.
    Jesus Son Blood
    Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. i'm telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen, when you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you're a pleasant person to be around. "good morning, sir. did you find everything that you need? oh, that's over in aisle seven. i'll come help you as soon as," that's the stuff. find something. it could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
    Mother Morning Husband
    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.a couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in france really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later i was in the studio, and eight days later, i was no the stage.
    Couple Eight Giving
    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.
    Rain Eye Blue
    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.
    Thinking Soul Trying
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