Al Jarreau Quotes
It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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A great manager is someone who says, 'You come to work with me, and I'll help you be as successful as possible; I'll help you grow. I'll help you make sure you're in the right role; I'll provide the relationship for you to understand and know yourself. And I want you to be more successful than me.'
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I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.
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My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.
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Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.
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It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.
