Words matter. These are the best Al Green Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back. And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.
I said, ‘I’m a rock star. I can’t preach in nobody’s church. Are you crazy?’ Let alone buy one. Oh, I wound up buying one.
Before I knew it, I was singing, ‘I’m so tired of being alone,’ and that’s Al right there. From then, my attitude was, ‘Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I’m not going to emulate them anymore.’
God told me, ‘I gave you the music, Al. Sing the music I gave you – all the music.’ So I did.
I was knocking on people’s doors. I knocked on a white couple’s door, and I told them, I says, ‘Excuse me, but I’ve been born again.’ The guy said, ‘Hon, call security. There’s a little black guy here talking about how he been born again. Call the police.’
I started recording in ’67. In the first part of ’68, my first single was ‘Backup Train.’ That was success to a degree. Four years have passed by since then, and I have managed to come up with a few measly sellers.
Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.
I’m thankful for every moment.
They used to talk about it in shop class, say, ‘That kid right there can sing,’ and I was going, like, ‘I wonder who they’re talking about?’
There’s more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don’t rhyme. The music they’re cutting is musically fantastic.
I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It’s music that… says you don’t have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I’m saying? Music that can go from any range.
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
My dad didn’t believe that I was going to make it through school, and that was the only thing I was determined to do, because he said that I wasn’t going to do it.
Pakistan’s being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that’s been extended.
