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Al Jarreau

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.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

When you do a lyric for ‘April in Paris,’ those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don’t deal with complex music very well.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

I want an audience that we might call a pop audience. Cross over to pop. Cross over to R&B. And bring those people to Brubeck and Chick Corea, you dig? A lot of people found Dave Brubeck and Chick Corea because they came to hear ‘We’re in This Love Together’ and ‘After All.’

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

You know, I think in some kinds of ways, we are all born into stuff that gives us no choice.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

I can’t imagine a more ideal life.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

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.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

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.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

There’s a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh. For others, it might be just like a comfortable shirt they’ve been wearing.

– Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

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.

– Al Jarreau

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