Al Jarreau Quotes

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Music is like a medicine.

I don't think there is anyone who cannot relate to music.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for me.

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.