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Al Jarreau Quotes

American - Musician | March 12, 1940 - February 12, 2017

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.

Music People Blood Why Always Been

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

Work Excellence Blessed Reward Early

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.

Life Morning Prayer Creative People

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

Thankful I Am Saying Thank You You

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.

Music Eyes Time Sky Blue Sun

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.

Life Thank You You Look Creation

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.

Mother Music Son Day Me Church

I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.

Loss Serious Hearing AIDS Challenged

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

Love Music Stone Wonder Want Brown

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 ...'

Father Mother Job Song Thinking You

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.

Internet Doing You Alive Go Out

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.

Communication Music Eyes Experience

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