Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
AL JARREAUAl 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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 sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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