Al Jarreau Quotes

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.

If you love something, if you're passionate about it, that's where you're going to have the greatest impact on the people around you: by living in those passions and sharing that passion with other people and sharing your gifts and what God created you to be.

The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it's stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that's where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.

What I've learned from the Pixar guys is 'If you work for the love of what you're doing, it's always going to come out right.' Cause if you're working for a paycheck then it's not going to work in the long run; it's not going to feed your heart and soul.

From the moment that you feel enthusiastic about everything, you know that you are following your heart.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

I do what I do because I love it.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.