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.
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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.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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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.
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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.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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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.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.
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I'm obsessed with cheese and milk, but eliminating them from my diet made the biggest difference. In a month and a half, I lost 11 pounds just from not eating dairy, without doing anything else different, and that totally blew my mind.
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Someone who just has a really good heart - it's so attractive: someone who makes you feel beautiful and encourages you - makes you better.
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The hardest thing when you're making a zombie movie is, 'How am I going to kill these zombies? I need a clever way to knock these guys off.'
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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.
