You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
AL JARREAUI 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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 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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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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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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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