I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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I was age six or seven, and singing, “Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him,” and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
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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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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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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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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’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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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 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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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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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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