Al Jarreau quote: "Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues."

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
AL JARREAU

I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on t...
AL JARREAU

I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang ...
AL JARREAU

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that ...
AL JARREAU

What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ...
AL JARREAU

Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the w...
AL JARREAU

My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining...
AL JARREAU

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that sa...
AL JARREAU

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving ...
AL JARREAU

You pray for things and accept the blessings when they come, you know? And it is about how you talk ...
AL JARREAU

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.
AL JARREAU

I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people...
AL JARREAU

When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a di...
AL JARREAU

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
AL JARREAU

I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that. Here I am. I love Sly...
AL JARREAU

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really ...
AL JARREAU

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop s...
AL JARREAU

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends towar...
AL JARREAU

It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song...
AL JARREAU

I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.
AL JARREAU

I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state -...
AL JARREAU

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald di...
AL JARREAU

I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener...
AL JARREAU

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja...
AL JARREAU

I tour a lot and interview a lot. I'm on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I&#...
AL JARREAU

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental librar...
AL JARREAU

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and t...
AL JARREAU

I'm saved every day by the intrinsic value of the work I do, which I truly enjoy.
AL JARREAU

Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the exp...
AL JARREAU

I can't imagine a more ideal life.
AL JARREAU

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in ou...
AL JARREAU

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standard...
AL JARREAU

It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even s...
AL JARREAU

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either ...
AL JARREAU

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do mus...
AL JARREAU

Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. ...
AL JARREAU

It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can...
AL JARREAU

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorro...
AL-HASAN AL-BASRI

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co...
AL GORE

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
AL GORE

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything ...
AL FRANKEN

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in ...
AL GOLDSTEIN

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuf...
AL JARDINE

People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We l...
AL ROKER

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
AL GORE

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the c...
AL GORE

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have acce...
AL FRANKEN

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
AL SHARPTON

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy ...
AL SHARPTON

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal...
AL SHARPTON

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If yo...
AL OERTER

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.
AL OERTER

It was like a tidal wave went through the city.
AL OERTER

It has to be the '80 Olympic hockey team.
AL OERTER

I never had technique.
AL OERTER

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at eac...
AL OERTER

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
AL SHARPTON

Deanna is a great pitcher, one of the best pitchers in the state. She does not get enough recognitio...
AL PEACOCK

I learned years ago you can shape your own destiny if you do get involved. There have always been a ...
AL PAZAR

There's a lot of overcapacity in the fishery that will need to be addressed. Probably that won't be ...
AL PAZAR

Every time you lose that pre-soak, the danger increases. It's the race to fish.
AL PAZAR

Newport stuck its neck out and did the heavy lifting. Some of the other ports resent us for that. Th...
AL PAZAR

It broke down this year, with both sides not able to agree, and so we went into our usual free-for-a...
AL PAZAR

That's fine if you keep playing this record over and over. It is going to be a very strong spring. T...
AL PARISH

It's going to continue to make realtors very happy. I haven't seen any unhappy people in that indust...
AL PARISH

Even though it's not the biggest property, it's getting in excess of $300 a night for a room. That's...
AL PARISH

It doesn't mean that everybody's condo went up 37 percent. It means they built more expensive condos...
AL PARISH

CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT

That's Fry. She settled down and came through for us.
AL NORTHINGTON

We just had to play smart in the fourth quarter. Our girls showed a lot of heart and a lot of grit.
AL NORTHINGTON

We didn't finish in that game. Tonight we finished.
AL NORTHINGTON

We made some mental mistakes, but we're still so young, and that's going to happen. Our four freshme...
AL NORTHINGTON

I'm so proud of these kids. It's a wonderful feeling to see these kids progress. This is a win for t...
AL NORTHINGTON

The president believes very strongly that this is going to have a major, major impact on economic gr...
AL HUBBARD

The recovery will be paid for by the federal taxpayer and it will add to the deficit.
AL HUBBARD

It's coming from the American taxpayer.
AL HUBBARD

The last thing in the world we need to do is raise taxes and retard economic growth.
AL HUBBARD

Poverty is a lagging indicator. It is sort of the last ratio that declines with an expanding economy...
AL HUBBARD

The president is totally committed to Social Security reform.
AL HUBBARD

Maybe people thought of us as a running team. Or a three-point shooting team. A no-contact team. We'...
AL HORFORD

Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villa...
AL HORFORD

It's great to see your son doing his job on the court. But it was no surprise.
AL HORFORD

There was not much we could do (last season) because it wasn't our team. It was frustrating at times...
AL HORFORD

We're so anxious for the game to get here.
AL HORFORD

We lost most of our scoring (from a year ago). But we knew we were going to come out here and make t...
AL HORFORD

You always dreamed about getting to this point. It is big in my mind. I'm pretty excited about it.
AL HORFORD

You could just see it in their eyes. That's when we go for the kill.
AL HORFORD

I am feeling a lot better; I'm taking care of myself drinking a lot of fluids and stuff. So I feel p...
AL HORFORD

They were leaving the wrong guy open. When you leave Lee, he's going to make you pay for it.
AL HORFORD

[He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz pu...
AL HIRT

I don't know, ... I do not know.
AL HIRT

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.
AL HIRT

The New Orleans I knew is gone, ... It's never going to come back. I'm just grateful I had my years ...
AL HIRT

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die befo...
AL HIRT

Rich could play way better than Krupa.
AL HIRT

Old Sharkey had a fat sound, man. He could blow like wild fire and when he played, I am telling you,...
AL HIRT

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
AL HIRT

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.
AL HIRT

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested ...
AL HIRSCHFELD

We arrived at Penn Station, took the Amsterdam Avenue street car to the end of the line. There was a...
AL HIRSCHFELD

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done, ... I am only intereste...
AL HIRSCHFELD

When I was about fourteen, my mother took me to see a musical comedy-and that was my first experienc...
AL HIRSCHFELD

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
AL HIRSCHFELD

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
AL HIRSCHFELD

$250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY

I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY

Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY

This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY

I know the feds give us the same amount of money, as does the state, as does the county. But there's...
AL HARTKOPF

A traffic signal costs a lot more than $25,000. What can you say? They're getting off cheap.
AL HARTKOPF

I knew it was going to end up badly.
AL HARTKOPF

If it causes a little bit of difficulty for us, it just does.
AL HARTKOPF

I have very mixed feelings on it. I totally get where the commissioners are coming from. I see the p...
AL HARTKOPF

Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it.
AL HARRIS

It wasn't him. It was us. We did it. We weren't afraid of Randy. We hurt our damn selves. On that se...
AL HARRIS

I wish him the best of luck. Of course, I want to win the game.
AL HARRIS

I don't think they were attacking me. I think they were going to their guy.
AL HARRIS

They have some serious weapons. We're going to have our hands full on Sunday.
AL HARRIS

He was with Detroit. I'm pretty sure we have some film on him. But it's no secret what they do.
AL HARRIS

You've got to watch yourself.
AL HARRIS

Bad! We needed it to pick ourselves back up.
AL HARRIS

It's not going to get any easier for us. I mean, the schedule only gets tougher. We've got to find a...
AL HARRIS

[In the end, not even the magic of No. 4, combined with the solid play of a young defense that seeme...
AL HARRIS

We could not put the ball in the hole, but the biggest thing is we did not get any stops defensively...
AL HARRINGTON

When someone is scoring like that, everybody else isn't involved. When they do shoot, they're ice co...
AL HARRINGTON

I'm sure he is from everything I hear, but I've got to wait until that happens.
AL HARRINGTON

When you're a bad team, you don't get any benefit-of-the-doubt calls. You see it on TV, the media kn...
AL HARRINGTON

It's been a long time coming.
AL HARRINGTON

I don't think you guys realize sometimes how connected we really are in that locker room. We are a f...
AL HARRINGTON

I got the call when I was getting into my car. I can't (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as so...
AL HARRINGTON

That's nonsense, and it's not fair to Coach and not fair to Jason. Jason never complained about anyt...
AL HARRINGTON

It's almost funny before you realize how sad it is. You want to try and tell somebody how to brace f...
AL HARRINGTON

Believe it or not, when it left my hand, it felt good.
AL HARRINGTON

It helps us determine which candidate might be the right match for Blue Valley Middle School.
AL HANNA

We are looking for a well-qualified, experienced administrator.
AL HANNA

He already knows a great deal about us and our operations. We think he will work well with staff and...
AL HANNA

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.
AL HANNA

This is a very tough loss for us. We felt like we had the game, but I have to give them credit. They...
AL HAMMELL

We'll really get into the fundamentals. It's something we hope to build on each year.
AL HAMMELL

I was impressed by how well our players interacted.
AL HAMMELL

It's about getting the younger players excited about baseball. We'll look forward to doing it each y...
AL HAMMELL

It was a great clinic for the first year.
AL HAMMELL

We had our players helping out with instruction.
AL HAMMELL

It's just something I've been doing for 10 years.
AL HAMMELL

We had about a total of over 50 kids this year.
AL HAMMELL

I think it is a very, very prestigious award for Story County. It shows that we are truly energy eff...
AL HAHN

If we don't go any further than we are right now, it is an extreme award for Story County.
AL HAHN

It is wonderful to be able to imagine a building system of this magnitude and then have it work at t...
AL HAHN

It goes to show that the first year wasn't a fluke.
AL HAHN

Our defense was just fantastic as it has been all year. It has been the backbone of our team all yea...
AL GUTHMAN

Our kids play hard and when you play hard, you don't notice people in the gym.
AL GUTHMAN

We've had their number the last two years, but you have different players on both teams. We'll have ...
AL GUTHMAN

We wore them down. It was a matter of our conditioning and our kids stepped up and hit their free th...
AL GUTHMAN

Our last message at halftime was something that we had said early in training camp. We just reminded...
AL GROH

When he comes back, it's going to be like picking up a free agent at midseason. We'll try to get him...
AL GROH

That means you're not going to cover those guys because if you start covering the short guys in zone...
AL GROH

Certainly the period of rehab would indicate that. Sometimes, these sprains of ankles and feet take ...
AL GROH

Certainly the period of rehab would indicate that, ... Sometimes, these sprains of ankles and feet t...
AL GROH

He's probably come on a little fast, ... That probably was the pleasant surprise of it.
AL GROH

We just kind of kept grinding. I was pleased with that: that idea about being a grinder and not gett...
AL GROH

They keep grinding and grinding until it has a cumulative effect on the opposition. It tends to wear...
AL GROH

His whole game has progressed. It probably would be unfair to Emmanuel to say that it's one thing or...
AL GROH

It's not going to be a six-month situation. We have to prepare for the duration.
AL GREEN

GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement...
AL GREEN

This is a ministry that has been given to me.
AL GREEN

Texas was settled by people who were willing to fence in their property and protect it. We take seri...
AL GREEN

It's you I want, but it's Him that I need.
AL GREEN

There's a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from be...
AL GREEN

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't ...
AL GREEN

I'm thankful for every moment.
AL GREEN

Some times in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow.But, if we are wise, we know that ther...
AL GREEN

This agreement recognizes the contributions our employees make and at the same time allows GM of Can...
AL GREEN

This year, each game, we want to go out and give our best. Our goal right now is to finish in the up...
AL GRAY

There's a freshman who Aaron has taken under his wing. He's done an excellent job with him, teaching...
AL GRAY

If you look at the returning marquee kids in the league ... [they] are tailbacks. A couple of years ...
AL BAGNOLI

We've got a chance to be a decent defense. We're not there yet.
AL BAGNOLI

Any time you get a different color jersey, it's beneficial and it also give you an idea of where you...
AL BAGNOLI

He is really a talented kid. We're still pretty young on the defensive side of the ball, and he prov...
AL BAGNOLI

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, ...
AL BAGNOLI

You never know. I don't want to take anything away from Harvard. On that day they were obviously the...
AL BAGNOLI

We're cautiously optimistic. We think we're going to have a lot of skill on this team, but we have s...
AL BAGNOLI

Kyle was a remarkable young man, a true scholar-athlete, an ambassador for Penn, a tremendous teamma...
AL BAGNOLI

He'll do more in terms of the development end, the fundraising end, the facilities end of it. He'll ...
AL BAGNOLI

What the final product is going to be, I can't tell you. I can tell you he's hitting the ball well. ...
AL AVILA

He's got room to fill out. He's a strong kid, he's just lean.
AL AVILA

He knows the strike zone, makes a lot of contact and doesn't swing at bad pitches. He has a lot of g...
AL AVILA

His development has come along real well. He's made good strides defensively. His hitting, though, i...
AL AVILA

If he continues to do what he's doing and continues to progress, there's no reason that midway in th...
AL AVILA

You do the best you can to make the transition as easy as possible. It doesn't guarantee that a kid ...
AL AVILA

We feel confident that the Tampa Bay area and our community can produce a successful Republican conv...
AL AUSTIN

You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up.
AL AUSTIN

We lost out by a flip of the coin. This time that's not going to happen.
AL AUSTIN

They are deserving of any type of honor they receive. I think it's fantastic. Their teams are family...
AL AUSTIN

They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream.
AL AUSTIN

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
AL ATTLES

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

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Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

Al Jarreau

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