I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
AL JARREAUThese songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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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 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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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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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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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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