Once you discover that you can, then you must.
AL JARREAUThat’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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I was age six or seven, and singing, “Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him,” and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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Find something you would do for free.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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