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 will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.
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When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
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Perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.
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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.
