Al Green: 'Life's about family'
Pastor and musician Al Green, 64, shares his truths about love, life in the fast lane, and being born again
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- Don't let the reverend business scare you. I'm a nice Reverend Al Green.
- I'm pretty down to earth.
- The best thing about being a reverend is the chance to get down to the nitty gritty on what love is. Love is care, compassion, concern.
- I'm infatuated with being concerned about you. If you let that grow it will get to be everlasting love. From there you get to God is love.
- When I was a boy, I wondered why they sang so mournful in church. The teacher told me: "Mr Green, if we were singing to try to get your attention, we'd sing it... the way you want it sung. But we're not trying to reach you. We're trying to reach a little higher."
- My daddy drank liquor. He would always leave me in the truck when he went to the liquor joint. He'd come out sloppy drunk and say: "Don't tell your mama." I'd be sitting in the back laughing. I didn't have to tell her. All he had to do was try to get out the truck.
- I was born again in 1973, when I was just getting started in music. I looked up at the sky saying: "What are you doing? I just had a song on the radio and now you gonna give me religion?" They were saying from upstairs: "Al, we want to save your life." I thought: "Oh yeah, maybe I should at least help."
- I was hooked up on jet planes, good times, fast women. Everything of mine... was fast.
- You can't compare a congregation to a crowd at a concert. A concert crowd does what they want. A congregation's got rules and regulations.
- I'm not trying to fool anybody. I'm a Christian, but I've lived a life that's full.
- I've been married a couple of times, been up and been down, been right and been wrong. These are the things you go through in this life.
- Life is more than snapping your fingers and having on a fine suit. Life is about devotion. It's about family, it's about the kids, it's about school. It's about going on a picnic with the boys.
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