Al Jarreau Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Uninsured care happens in this country, and here's the problem. It's not properly accounted for. The people who pay for uninsured care at the moment are the hospitals and the doctors and all of the medical providers.

John Fleming

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More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

Melissa McCarthy

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Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

John Muir

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Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations.

Stephanie Coontz

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As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.

Ron Francis

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The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

Rufus Wainwright

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I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.

Lucy Davis

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My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

Juan Pablo Montoya

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Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Judith Martin

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It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.

Chris Milk

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I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing.

Pramila Jayapal

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My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.

Paul Watson

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