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Al Jarreau Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 12, 1940 - February 12, 2017

Topics

Good You Jazz More Out Singer

When I first got signed, I used to literally pick up a pen and pad. Write bars in my notes, even whole songs. Nowadays, I just go off the feeling.

Jeremih

Pen Feeling Go Write First Up

My biggest love has always been the music Black Veil Brides make, but that doesn't mean I don't listen to or enjoy other things.

Andy Biersack

Love Music Black Enjoy Listen Mean

When I was a kid, I'd create my own movies at home. I'd record myself doing a scene, then stop the camera, change my clothes, and do a scene as another character. It sounds silly, but I just loved to tell stories.

Meagan Tandy

Change Home Character Myself Loved

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

John Lydon

Me End You Feeling Up Count

My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I could be a real buffoon, a windbag, be self-involved, and we could get a lot of comic mileage from him. However, the audience accepted me with gravity when I was in a dire situation, so they would follow me in comic or dramatic stories.

Robert Picardo

Character Me Situation Go Way Real

Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical.

Stephanie Coontz

Marriage Relationships Protect State

When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.

Travis Bradberry

Performance Management Behavior You

If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.

Tony La Russa

Baseball Practice Book Speak Learn

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

Robby Krieger

Money Mistakes Cost Well Get Stuff

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

Roy Barnes

Hope Training Names Technical Some

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

Marty Meehan

Help Plan Result Nothing Seniors

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Michel Onfray

Alone Best I Am People Luxury Now