Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.
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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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I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time than I spend performing anywhere else in the world. I have a great relationship with the people of Ohio, and it's great to be near the OSU when I come to Columbus.
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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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I'm an R&B and pop singer as well as a jazzer.
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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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I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.
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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've got an odometer on my voice that has out-odometered an odometer on an automobile.
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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'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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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.
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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 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 love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.