Al Jarreau Quotes

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when it's bad, there's nothing worse.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

I love our industry. I love the song. I love the voice. I love it. Not necessarily my voice. But I care about the song and the voice.

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.

Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

You only get better by playing.

Learn by practice.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.