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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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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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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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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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 went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
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People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
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I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'
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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.
