Al Jarreau

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

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

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

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.