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I work 'cause I have to pay the bills. But I also work 'cause I love it. I don't know what I'd do with me if I didn't have this work. It's what I've done all my life. It's my motivation. It's my satisfaction. It's my joy to stand in front of an audience to sing, to come back home and write songs. Man, it's amazing for me.

~Al Jarreau

Topics: All My Life Also Amazing Audience Back Bills Cause Come Done Front Home Joy Know Life Love Man Me Motivation My Life Pay Satisfaction Sing Songs Stand Work Write I Love

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It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.

~Al Jarreau

Topics: Consideration Itself Meaning Music Serious Song Speaking Step Suggest Very

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When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.

~Al Jarreau

Topics: Add April Because Before Complex Deal Different Different Way Does Ears Great Hear Heard Inaccessible Lot Lyric May Music Now Paris People Perspective Piece Those Very Way Well Who You

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I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that. Here I am. I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that. Here I am. I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.

~Al Jarreau

Topics: Am Beatles Brown Going Hear Here James James Brown Jon Love Music Reflect Sly Some Stevie Stevie Wonder Stone Touched Want Wonder Write You I Am I Love I Write

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I came along with that crowd of singer-songwriters who were able to make their own statements in such a personal way that it changed the industry: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Sly and the Family Stone.

~Al Jarreau

Topics: Able Along Bob Bob Dylan Came Changed Crowd Dylan Family Industry Joni Mitchell Laura Make Mitchell Own Personal Sly Statements Stone Way Were Who I Came

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I'm an R&B and pop singer as well as a jazzer.

~Al Jarreau

Topics: Pop Singer Well

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I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with me and kept me alive and around.

~Al Jarreau

Topics: Alive Appreciate Around Audience Being Case Could Determined Doing Evolved Grew Grounded Helped How Keep Kept Kind Little Maturity Me More Music Older Really Think Who I Think

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I'm a little bit nervous for us with all of this electronically generated new hyper-space that we've moved into, where not only people but also economies and systems, like banking, are left to zeros and ones. I want to be more than a zero or one.

~Al Jarreau

Topics: Also Banking Bit Economies Left Like Little Little Bit More Moved Nervous New Only People Systems Than Us Want Where Zero

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 12th, 1940

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