I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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.
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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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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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