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 Read Quote
I want an audience that we might call a pop audience. Cross over to pop. Cross over to R&B. And bring those people to Brubeck and Chick Corea, you dig? A lot of people found Dave Brubeck and Chick Corea because they came to hear ‘We’re in This Love Together’ and ‘After All.’ Al Jarreau Read Quote
I’m really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven’t had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do. Al Jarreau Read Quote
Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career. Al Jarreau Read Quote
I’ve got an odometer on my voice that has out-odometered an odometer on an automobile. Al Jarreau Read Quote
I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me. Al Jarreau Read Quote
I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn’t called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It’s a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer. Al Jarreau Read Quote
Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they’re just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches. Al Jarreau Read Quote
I love connecting with the audience, and there’s more ways than one to do that. Al Jarreau Read Quote
I say what’s on my mind and have a good time. I try to give people a show. It’s all about giving people a good time once you get out under those lights. Al Jarreau Read Quote
