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I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.
- Al Jarreau
#AIDS
#Challenged
#Hearing
#Loss
#Serious
What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.
- Al Jarreau
#Communication
#Experience
#Eyes
#Music
Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
- Al Jarreau
#Everything
#Laugh
#Road
#Sharing
#Three
It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.
- Al Jarreau
#Creation
#Life
#Look
#Stage
#Wonderful
Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.
- Al Jarreau
#Always
#Blood
#Music
#People
#Why
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.
- Al Jarreau
#Life
#Morning
#Night
#Prayer
#Yourself
I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.
- Al Jarreau
#Music
#Reflect
#Rock
#Roll
#Want
We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.
- Al Jarreau
#Great
#Technology
#Time
#Way
#Wonderful
I still have a pretty lively audience in German and across Europe. And I continue to say, 'Thank you, God,' for making me smart enough to avoid getting hit by trucks and going out and finding myself an audience abroad. Which includes Asia - from Jakarta to Japan. Working hard at finding an audience abroad.
- Al Jarreau
#Continue
#God
#Me
#Myself
#Smart
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
- Al Jarreau
#Band
#Big
#Jazz
#Need
#Project
These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
- Al Jarreau
#Back
#Car
#Myself
#Old Friends
#Walking
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
#God
#Good
#Long Time
#Long
#Time
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
- Al Jarreau
#Blessed
#Excellence
#Own
#Reward
#Work
My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
- Al Jarreau
#Eyes
#Music
#Sky
#Sun
#Time
I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.
- Al Jarreau
#Audience
#Fresh
#Fun
#Me
#Resting
I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.
- Al Jarreau
#Church
#Day
#Me
#Music
#Son
Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
- Al Jarreau
#Bed
#I Am
#Important
#Know
#Thankful
I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.
- Al Jarreau
#Community
#Family
#Me
#Money
#Together
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