I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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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.
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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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