You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
AL JARREAUI came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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