Quotes by Jeffrey Osborne - Page 1

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Jazz Record
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Just smile for me and let the day begin.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Romantic
Just Smile
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My motto now is eat to live. Not live to eat.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Motto
My Motto
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My first job was with The O'Jays playing drums.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Drums
First Job
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Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Music
Flying High
Wings
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If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Chords
Dormant
Vocal
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Family is what I've leaned on for years; it's what I cherish the most.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Cherish
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Watch what you put into your body. It will carry you a long way. No doubt.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Long Way
No Doubt
Your Body
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Being the youngest of 12, I always had to wait my turn in line to play my records.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Records
Wait
Line
Youngest
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If you really love your partner, then the relationship is worth fighting for in the end.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
In The End
Partner
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I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Motown
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My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
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Count
Duke
Trumpet
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When young people hear auto-tune, they think that's real R&B. You have to get rid of all of the gimmicks.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
People Real Young
Rid
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I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Childhood
Musical
Way Back Go
Influences
Quite A Bit
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I've always been active in working out and taking care of myself. I've been running two miles a day since I was 18.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Miles
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The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Anthem
Athlete
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Singing
Years
Athletes
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With pop, it's pretty much straight up and down. It has to be simple. Everybody has to be able to walk down the street and be able to sing it.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Up And Down
Straight
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People don't realize it, but you've got to take care of it. The vocal cord is the smallest muscle in the body, and it gets more use than any other muscle.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Smallest
Vocal
Muscle
Cord
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I listened to everything. To the early Motown groups - the Four Tops and the Temptations - to Johnny Mathis, Gloria Lynne - my sisters loved her. Sarah Vaughan. Everything.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Motown
Sisters
Johnny
Listened
Sarah
Temptations
Tops
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The only real satisfaction is live performances. That's when you can actually get some feedback from what you're doing. You get that artist-to-audience chemistry. I love it!
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Chemistry
Feedback
Satisfaction
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To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it's the same if you want to sing correctly. You really need to push it out from there. And I think that's what has kept me going as a singer.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Correctly
Trumpet
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I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Groups
Singers
Songwriters
Lionel
Richie
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The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Guitarist
Trumpet
Harp
Jackson
Paul
Rick
Sax
Swing
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Everyone in the group sang when I joined them. That was one of the problems with L.T.D.: there was no focal point. It took until 1976, or about six or seven years, before I was put into the spotlight as a vocalist. That's when I recorded 'Love Ballad,' and it became a hit for the group.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Focal Point
Six
Spotlight
Vocalist
Ballad
Hit
Focal
Group
Joined
Sang
One Of The Problems
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In all the time I was with L.T.D., I was never allowed to do an interview by myself. I wasn't even allowed to talk on stage between songs. I couldn't get a publishing agreement or a production deal because everyone had their own little role to play in the group... and the money, well, anything split 10 ways can't be much.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Agreement
Publishing
Time Money Myself
Interview
Split
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Everything has changed since I started recording in 1972. But the very things that have opened this industry, like the digital platforms to reach more people, have also killed things that were happening before in the recording studio. Now, most of the time, there are no real musicians in the studio; it's people with sequencers and things.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Platforms
Recording Studio
Time People Real
More People
Opened
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