Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

Silence is so accurate.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.