Al Jarreau Quotes

I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

Al Jarreau

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• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Hand
  • Military
  • Fight

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Girl
  • Dark
  • Years

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Political

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • Like
  • Debt

• And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Fine
  • Wants
  • Honestly

• If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • You
  • Know
  • Try

• There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Women
  • Strong

• If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • She
  • Job
  • True

• I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Law
  • Wife
  • Christian

• The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

  

  John Zorn
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Band

• I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Good
  • Remember

• There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Character

• Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Time

• I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Music
  • Together
  • Singing