Al Jarreau Quotes

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.

Al Jarreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

John Lee Hooker

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I wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person.

Steve Coogan

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Every woman inspires me.

Roberto Cavalli

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For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

Michael Pena

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To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.

Joseph Brodsky

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With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.

Debi Mazar

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If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

Arthur Blank

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I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

Antonio Damasio

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People are used to cash, and getting them out of that is going to be a long and tough exercise.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.

Wolfgang Puck

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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

William Lyon Phelps

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Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

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