Al Jarreau Quotes
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I tour a lot and interview a lot. I'm on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I've got a bass drum and a sandwich sign and a washboard. You just have to shout louder and louder that you're still alive.
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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'
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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.
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You pray for things and accept the blessings when they come, you know? And it is about how you talk to yourself and what you say morning, noon and night about what you want to happen in your life. Some folks call that creative visualization. Other people call it prayer. But it is about that message that you send out there to yourself.
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Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.
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I've thought about doing it as soon as it is possible with this new CD getting some wings and getting out there. I don't know how soon that will be.
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It's joyful in that there's another point of view on all things, you know, not just mine. That's why I like to write and collaborate with people. There's another point of view, and when those two things come together, and people work at it really hard, they get something that is the whole is more than the sum of - is that how you say that?
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I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.
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I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.
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Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.
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Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
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You know, I think in some kinds of ways, we are all born into stuff that gives us no choice.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I've got an odometer on my voice that has out-odometered an odometer on an automobile.
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I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.
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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.
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More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.
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I say what's on my mind and have a good time. I try to give people a show. It's all about giving people a good time once you get out under those lights.
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I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.