I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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 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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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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