You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
AL JARREAUEvery 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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 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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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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 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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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