Al Jarreau Quotes
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
-
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
-
Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
-
I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
-
For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
-
I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
-
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
-
I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
-
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
-
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
-
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
-
Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
-
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
-
Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
-
I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
-
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
-
I love rock n' rollers.
-
I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
-
When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
-
Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.
-
He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.
-
Let me lay emphasis on the opportunity now presented in the United States for observing and, if we are wise, aiding in what I think it fair to say is the grandest opportunity ever presented of developing the finest race the world has ever known out of the vast mingling of races brought here by immigration.
-
Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
-
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.
