#si

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

#blues #count #decided #direct #discover

My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#big #blank #blue #eyes #i

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

#career #done #experience #feelings #head

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#audience #company #continuing #fashion #given

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. ↗

— Keith Jarrett

#happens #jazz #present #simple #you

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#challenges #daunting #day #elect #face

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#begets #dependence #designs #fit #germ

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#celebrates #common #common ground #diversity #ground

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#barack obama #communities #country #each #families

For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#covered #currently #health #health insurance #insurance