Al Jarreau Quotes

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

I'd love to be a rockstar.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.