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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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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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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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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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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I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.
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Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
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I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.
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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.
