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.
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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If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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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I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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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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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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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 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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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