Al Jarreau Quotes

The band and I really enjoy working for people who enjoy the music. I haven't made a bazillion dollars doing this. I do it because I love it. I did it for free and will do it for free in the morning.

Al Jarreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveMusicMorningPeopleFreeWill

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

Andrew Solomon

WorkFatherOperaUsedStepmother

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

John Malkovich

LiveTogetherSimpleMeGroupMost

Each person has a literature inside them.

Anna Deavere Smith

LiteraturePersonInsideThemEach

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

GoodRelationshipSpaceWorldSmall

I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

Steve Schirripa

MyselfManDriveYouCelebrityClub

Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.

Tommy Ramone

SoundRhythmBottomOurMuchVery

I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.

Robin Wright

New YorkBackHouseNewCalifornia

David Ben-Gurion established the Israeli intelligence community in June of 1948, just three weeks after the establishment of Israel and in the midst of war.

Ronen Bergman

CommunityIntelligenceWarThree

We didn't burn out. We were fresh. So when you go through the 13 shows, that was it until the next time. That way, you went out and did your concerts and things, and you were ready to go again.

Roy Clark

TimeYouReadyGoBurnWay

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

Mike White

LifeCivilityWhoAttracted

As I've got older, I've become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager's team talk; as a kid, if I'm honest, I never listened.

Michael Owen

TeamManagerBecomeTalkNeverKid

You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'

Joseph Brodsky

YouPageRuinCannotCover

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