Al Jarreau Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.

Jessica Biel

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Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

John Hockenberry

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I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.

John Wooden

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I could also lose to lesser fighters than David Haye, based on the fact that styles make fights.

Tony Bellew

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No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.

Michael Redhill

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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

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Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.

Jazz Jennings

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I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

Derek Luke

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I meet astrophysicists almost every week who say that they went into their line of work because of '2001.'

Douglas Trumbull

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I have visited the cities and towns across America and seen the devastation caused by the trade policies of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton supported Bill Clinton's disastrous NAFTA, just like she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization.

Donald Trump

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I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.

Chevy Chase

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Life must be lived as play.

Plato

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